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Beggarticks (Bidens)
Also known as : tickseed sunflowers, Cobbler's pegs, Spanish needles
Beggarticks are common in tropical and temperate areas of the world. Their popularity is expressed in the number of names they have: black jack, beggarticks, cobbler's pegs, stickseeds, and tickseed sunflowers etc. They are common honey plants enjoyed by pollinators and have sticky seeds.
Lifespan
Perennial
Plant Type
Herb/Vine
Key Facts About Beggarticks
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Attributes of Beggarticks
Plant Height
15 cm
Spread
30 cm
Leaf type
Semi-evergreen
Ideal Temperature
15 - 35 ℃
Scientific Classification of Beggarticks
Distribution of Beggarticks
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Distribution Map of Beggarticks
Native
Cultivated
Invasive
Potentially invasive
Exotic
No species reported
How to Grow and Care for Beggarticks
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The beggarticks is a sun-loving plant genus with simple care requirements. It commonly thrives in full sunlight, appreciating regular watering but can tolerate slight drought. Its preferred environment is warm, with moist, well-draining soil. These plants can face challenges from pests like aphids and whiteflies, and fungal diseases that arise from poor aeration. Beggarticks require less water during winter but need protection from freezing. During growing months (spring and summer), ensuring adequate sunlight and appropriate watering is crucial. Transition to autumn requires reduced watering and preparation for winter dormancy.
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8 most common species：
Hairy beggarticks
Hairy beggarticks (Bidens pilosa) is a slender, annual flowering plant native to North and South America and grown all over the world. Hairy beggarticks is also called black-jack and devils needles. Seed dispersal occurs with this plant, and its seeds are transported by animals. As a result, hairy beggarticks has become an invasive species in many countries.
Devil's beggarticks
Devil's beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) is a plant species native to North America. Bidens frondosa has many common names, including devil's beggarticks, devil's pitchfork, sticktights, pitchfork weed, and common beggar-ticks. This plant has become an invasive species in New Zealand and is considered a weed there.
Spanish needles
Spanish needles (Bidens bipinnata) are a very common flowering plant that is evolutionarily related to daisies. The spanish needles is native to North America and Asia, and grows throughout the world. The spanish needles is considered a hearty plant that can grow in a wide range of environmental conditions.
Arizona beggarticks
Bidens aurea (Arizona beggarticks) is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family. It is widespread across much of Mexico and found also in Arizona and Guatemala. The species is also naturalized in parts of Europe and South America. Bidens aurea is an annual herb occasionally reaching a height of 2.5 m. It produces numerous yellow or whitish flower heads containing both disc florets and ray florets. It grows primarily in wet areas such as marshes and streambanks.
Bearded beggarticks
Part of the sunflower family the Bidens aristosa is also referred to as the bearded beggarticks. This herb can often reach up to 1.5 m in height. The plant produces solitary flower heads with bright yellow color in fall with each being 2.5 to 5 cm across. It mainly used for landscape beautification.
Beggarticks
Beggarticks (*Bidens alba*) are perennial wildflowers that are an important source of food for butterflies, bees, and insects. It is an aggressive growing plant, but it is a native species in many parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. It blooms white ray flowers with yellow disc centers that look like daisy flowers. Blooming time is from spring to fall.
Three-Lobe Beggartick
Three-Lobe Beggartick, or Bidens tripartita, is a common annual in the sunflower family. This plant grows a single yellow flower head that loosely resembles a marigold. It grows in waste areas, puddles, and shores.
Smooth beggarticks
The smooth beggarticks is a flowering plant from the family of daisies. Also called the Bidens laevis, it is native to South America and Mexico and grows on wetland. The herb grows and lasts for years.
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Hairy beggarticks
Hairy beggarticks
Hairy beggarticks (Bidens pilosa) is a slender, annual flowering plant native to North and South America and grown all over the world. Hairy beggarticks is also called black-jack and devils needles. Seed dispersal occurs with this plant, and its seeds are transported by animals. As a result, hairy beggarticks has become an invasive species in many countries.
Devil's beggarticks
Devil's beggarticks
Devil's beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) is a plant species native to North America. Bidens frondosa has many common names, including devil's beggarticks, devil's pitchfork, sticktights, pitchfork weed, and common beggar-ticks. This plant has become an invasive species in New Zealand and is considered a weed there.
Spanish needles
Spanish needles
Spanish needles (Bidens bipinnata) are a very common flowering plant that is evolutionarily related to daisies. The spanish needles is native to North America and Asia, and grows throughout the world. The spanish needles is considered a hearty plant that can grow in a wide range of environmental conditions.
Arizona beggarticks
Arizona beggarticks
Bidens aurea (Arizona beggarticks) is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family. It is widespread across much of Mexico and found also in Arizona and Guatemala. The species is also naturalized in parts of Europe and South America. Bidens aurea is an annual herb occasionally reaching a height of 2.5 m. It produces numerous yellow or whitish flower heads containing both disc florets and ray florets. It grows primarily in wet areas such as marshes and streambanks.
Bearded beggarticks
Bearded beggarticks
Part of the sunflower family the Bidens aristosa is also referred to as the bearded beggarticks. This herb can often reach up to 1.5 m in height. The plant produces solitary flower heads with bright yellow color in fall with each being 2.5 to 5 cm across. It mainly used for landscape beautification.
Beggarticks
Beggarticks
Beggarticks (*Bidens alba*) are perennial wildflowers that are an important source of food for butterflies, bees, and insects. It is an aggressive growing plant, but it is a native species in many parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. It blooms white ray flowers with yellow disc centers that look like daisy flowers. Blooming time is from spring to fall.
Three-Lobe Beggartick
Three-Lobe Beggartick
Three-Lobe Beggartick, or Bidens tripartita, is a common annual in the sunflower family. This plant grows a single yellow flower head that loosely resembles a marigold. It grows in waste areas, puddles, and shores.
Smooth beggarticks
Smooth beggarticks
The smooth beggarticks is a flowering plant from the family of daisies. Also called the Bidens laevis, it is native to South America and Mexico and grows on wetland. The herb grows and lasts for years.
Nodding beggarticks
Nodding beggarticks
Nodding beggarticks (Bidens cernua) is a weedy annual that can grow up to 4 m tall in optimum conditions. Commonly found growing in wet habitats, along streams and swamps. Ducks feast on the seeds. It blooms in August with bright yellow ray flowers. As the plant matures, the flower head begins to nod, giving it its common name.
Purple-stem beggarticks
Purple-stem beggarticks
Purple-stem beggarticks (Bidens connata) is a member of the daisy family found across much of North America, Eurasia, and North Africa. It likes muddy soil in wetlands, marshes, and riverbanks. The leaves of purple-stem beggarticks turn purple or purplish in the fall. Its seed pods are barbed and attach to fur or clothing in order to spread.
Tall beggarticks
Tall beggarticks
Tall beggarticks (Bidens vulgata) grows native in eastern and central North America and has been introduced on the continent's west coast as well as in Europe. It is an annual herb in the daisy family. Tall beggarticks is mainly found along streams and in swamps and marshes.
Marsh tickseed
Marsh tickseed
Marsh tickseed (Bidens trichosperma) is named for its favored marshland habitat, where you can spot its bright yellow flowers blooming in late summer and fall. This plant has a close relative, Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa), that looks very similar, but on close inspection is revealed to have far fewer curly flower bracts than marsh tickseed.
Spanish needles
Spanish needles
Spanish needles is a flowering herb that typically thrives in sun-drenched meadows and open woodlands. Its distinctive forked growth pattern showcases pairs of opposite leaves, while the branching stems culminate in bright yellow composite flowers. These flowers, often marked with unique blackened centres, give rise to its name and facilitate pollinator attraction. Seasonally, spanish needles demonstrates a resilient nature, adapting well to varied light and soil conditions.
Beggarticks 'Efraims Gold'
Beggarticks 'Efraims Gold'
Beggarticks 'Efraims Gold', as indicated by its name, is a variety of Bidens with bright yellow-gold flowers. It is a standing variety and a more erect plant than other types of Bidens. Long-flowering, it blooms for the entire summer.
Bidens parviflora
Bidens parviflora
Bidens parviflora is a modest yet resilient flowering plant often found in open, sunny fields. It showcases a delightful array of small, daisy-like flowers with yellow centers ringed by delicate white petals. Its narrow leaves and thin stems may appear fragile but are adapted to prosper in well-drained soils. This species thrives in conditions that can challenge less hardy flora, demonstrating its tenacity and adaptability.
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Dracaena
Dracaena are popular house plants that are easy to grow. They can tolerate low-light conditions and require little watering. Their leaves range from variegated to dark green. Their characteristic traits include woody stems that grow slowly but offer a striking appearance for small spaces such as apartments or offices.
Fig trees
Fig trees have been cultivated in many regions for their fruits, particularly the common fig, F. carica. Most of the species have edible fruits, although the common fig is the only one of commercial value. Fig trees are also important food sources for wildlife in the tropics, including monkeys, bats, and insects.
Brambles
Brambles are members of the rose family, and there are hundreds of different types to be found throughout the European countryside. They have been culturally significant for centuries; Christian folklore stories hold that when the devil was thrown from heaven, he landed on a bramble bush. Their vigorous growth habit can tangle into native plants and take over.
Maples
The popular tree family known as maples change the color of their leaves in the fall. Many cultural traditions encourage people to watch the colors change, such as momijigari in Japan. Maples popular options for bonsai art. Alternately, their sap is used to create maple syrup.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering fruit trees that includes almonds, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. These are often known as "stone fruits" because their pits are large seeds or "stones." When prunus trees are damaged, they exhibit "gummosis," a condition in which the tree's gum (similar to sap) is secreted to the bark to help heal external wounds.
Nightshades
Nightshades is a large and diverse genus of plants, with more than 1500 different types worldwide. This genus incorporates both important staple food crops like tomato, potato, and eggplant, but also dangerous poisonous plants from the nightshade family. The name was coined by Pliny the Elder almost two thousand years ago.
Roses
Most species of roses are shrubs or climbing plants that have showy flowers and sharp thorns. They are commonly cultivated for cut flowers or as ornamental plants in gardens due to their attractive appearance, pleasant fragrance, and cultural significance in many countries. The rose hips (fruits) can also be used in jams and teas.
Oaks
Oaks are among the world's longest-lived trees, sometimes growing for over 1,000 years! The oldest known oak tree is in the southern United States and is over 1,500 years old. Oaks produce an exceedingly popular type of wood which is used to make different products, from furniture and flooring to wine barrels and even cosmetic creams.
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About
Key Facts
Distribution
How To Care
All Species
More Genus
Beggarticks
Bidens
Also known as: tickseed sunflowers, Cobbler's pegs, Spanish needles
Beggarticks are common in tropical and temperate areas of the world. Their popularity is expressed in the number of names they have: black jack, beggarticks, cobbler's pegs, stickseeds, and tickseed sunflowers etc. They are common honey plants enjoyed by pollinators and have sticky seeds.
Lifespan
Perennial
Plant Type
Herb/Vine
Key Facts About Beggarticks
Feedback
Attributes of Beggarticks
Plant Height
15 cm
Spread
30 cm
Leaf type
Semi-evergreen
Ideal Temperature
15 - 35 ℃
Scientific Classification of Beggarticks
Distribution of Beggarticks
Feedback
Distribution Map of Beggarticks
Native
Cultivated
Invasive
Potentially invasive
Exotic
No species reported
How to Grow and Care for Beggarticks
Feedback
The beggarticks is a sun-loving plant genus with simple care requirements. It commonly thrives in full sunlight, appreciating regular watering but can tolerate slight drought. Its preferred environment is warm, with moist, well-draining soil. These plants can face challenges from pests like aphids and whiteflies, and fungal diseases that arise from poor aeration. Beggarticks require less water during winter but need protection from freezing. During growing months (spring and summer), ensuring adequate sunlight and appropriate watering is crucial. Transition to autumn requires reduced watering and preparation for winter dormancy.
How to Water Beggarticks?
What Are the Sunlight Requirements for Beggarticks?
How to Propagate Beggarticks?
How to Plant Beggarticks?
Exploring the Beggarticks Plants
Feedback
8 most common species：
Hairy beggarticks
Hairy beggarticks (Bidens pilosa) is a slender, annual flowering plant native to North and South America and grown all over the world. Hairy beggarticks is also called black-jack and devils needles. Seed dispersal occurs with this plant, and its seeds are transported by animals. As a result, hairy beggarticks has become an invasive species in many countries.
Devil's beggarticks
Devil's beggarticks (Bidens frondosa) is a plant species native to North America. Bidens frondosa has many common names, including devil's beggarticks, devil's pitchfork, sticktights, pitchfork weed, and common beggar-ticks. This plant has become an invasive species in New Zealand and is considered a weed there.
Spanish needles
Spanish needles (Bidens bipinnata) are a very common flowering plant that is evolutionarily related to daisies. The spanish needles is native to North America and Asia, and grows throughout the world. The spanish needles is considered a hearty plant that can grow in a wide range of environmental conditions.
Arizona beggarticks
Bidens aurea (Arizona beggarticks) is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family. It is widespread across much of Mexico and found also in Arizona and Guatemala. The species is also naturalized in parts of Europe and South America. Bidens aurea is an annual herb occasionally reaching a height of 2.5 m. It produces numerous yellow or whitish flower heads containing both disc florets and ray florets. It grows primarily in wet areas such as marshes and streambanks.
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All Species of Beggarticks
More Popular Genus
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Dracaena
Dracaena are popular house plants that are easy to grow. They can tolerate low-light conditions and require little watering. Their leaves range from variegated to dark green. Their characteristic traits include woody stems that grow slowly but offer a striking appearance for small spaces such as apartments or offices.
Fig trees
Fig trees have been cultivated in many regions for their fruits, particularly the common fig, F. carica. Most of the species have edible fruits, although the common fig is the only one of commercial value. Fig trees are also important food sources for wildlife in the tropics, including monkeys, bats, and insects.
Brambles
Brambles are members of the rose family, and there are hundreds of different types to be found throughout the European countryside. They have been culturally significant for centuries; Christian folklore stories hold that when the devil was thrown from heaven, he landed on a bramble bush. Their vigorous growth habit can tangle into native plants and take over.
Maples
The popular tree family known as maples change the color of their leaves in the fall. Many cultural traditions encourage people to watch the colors change, such as momijigari in Japan. Maples popular options for bonsai art. Alternately, their sap is used to create maple syrup.
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering fruit trees that includes almonds, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. These are often known as "stone fruits" because their pits are large seeds or "stones." When prunus trees are damaged, they exhibit "gummosis," a condition in which the tree's gum (similar to sap) is secreted to the bark to help heal external wounds.
Nightshades
Nightshades is a large and diverse genus of plants, with more than 1500 different types worldwide. This genus incorporates both important staple food crops like tomato, potato, and eggplant, but also dangerous poisonous plants from the nightshade family. The name was coined by Pliny the Elder almost two thousand years ago.
Roses
Most species of roses are shrubs or climbing plants that have showy flowers and sharp thorns. They are commonly cultivated for cut flowers or as ornamental plants in gardens due to their attractive appearance, pleasant fragrance, and cultural significance in many countries. The rose hips (fruits) can also be used in jams and teas.
Oaks
Oaks are among the world's longest-lived trees, sometimes growing for over 1,000 years! The oldest known oak tree is in the southern United States and is over 1,500 years old. Oaks produce an exceedingly popular type of wood which is used to make different products, from furniture and flooring to wine barrels and even cosmetic creams.
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