Ontario Weeds: Tall beggarticks

Table of Contents

1. Name
2. Other Names
3. Family
4. General Description
   • Photos and Pictures
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. B. Top of flowering stem.

C. "Seed."

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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