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Bidens reptans
Bidens reptans is a scrambling, climbing perennial in the daisy family from the Neotropics, native from Mexico and the Caribbean south to Argentina and Bolivia. It creeps over the ground or climbs into shrubs and trees, and is grown mainly as a wild or ornamental vine in warm, seasonally dry climates.
Bidens reptans is a species of scrambling perennial plant of the Neotropical realm belonging to the family Asteraceae
Bidens reptans is native to the Americas from Mexico and the Caribbean south through Central America into South America as far south as Argentina and Bolivia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bidens reptans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
