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Ontario Weeds: Tall beggarticks

Author: OMAFRA Staff
Creation Date: 01 June 2000
Last Reviewed: 01 November 2003

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Excerpt from Publication 505, Ontario Weeds, Order this publication

Table of Contents

  1. Name
  2. Other Names
  3. Family
  4. General Description
  5. Stems and Roots
  6. Flowers and Fruit
  7. Habitat
  8. Related Links

Name: Tall beggarticks, Bidens vulgata Greene,

Other Names: bident vulgaire, Burmarigold, fourchettes

Family: Composite or Aster Family (Compositae) 

General Description: Annual, reproducing only by seed.

Photos and Pictures

Tall beggarticks Tall beggarticks

Tall beggarticks. B. Top of flowering stem.
Tall beggarticks. B. Top of flowering stem.

C. "Seed."
C. "Seed."

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Stems & Roots: Similar in form and habit to Nodding beggarticks but distinguished by having compound leaves with 3 or 5 leaflets, (just 1 leaflet resembling the whole leaf of Nodding beggarticks);

Flowers & Fruit: Flower heads usually lacking the large yellow ray florets, and surrounded by 10 to 16 or more long, thin, involucral bracts. Like Nodding beggarticks, its seeds also have 2 backward-barbed awns.

Habitat: Tall beggarticks has a similar distribution to that of Nodding beggarticks.

Related Links

... on general Weed topics
... on weed identification, order OMAFRA Publication 505: Ontario Weeds
... on weed control, order OMAFRA Publication 75: Guide To Weed Control

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