Bidens alba
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Beggarticks
Asteraceae
Plant Specifics
Form: | Flower | |
Size: | 1-3 ft ft tall by 1-3 ft ft wide | |
Life Span: | Annual | |
Flower Color: | White ray flowers, yellow disk flowers | |
Fruit Color: | Black | |
Phenology: | Blooms all year. | |
Noted for: | Showy flowers |
Landscaping
Recommended Uses: | Casual settings, especially toward the rear of wildflower gardens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Considerations: | Once you have this plant, you will always have this plant. It can be quite weedy. The seeds have barbs which stick to clothing and pet fur. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Propagation: | Seed. But if you don't have it now, you will, so no need to plant. Pull seedlings leaving only a few plants to bring in the insects. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Availability: | Seed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Light: | Full Sun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moisture Tolerance: |
always floodedextremely dry |
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(Usually moist, occasional inundation ----- to ----- Very long very dry periods) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Moisture Tolerance: | Usually moist, occasional inundation ----- to ----- Very long very dry periods | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salt Water Flooding Tolerance: | Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salt Spray/ Salty Soil Tolerance: | Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soil or other substrate: | Loam, Sand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soil pH: | Adaptable |
Ecology
Wildlife: |
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Insects: | Attracts native bees, butterflies. Larval host for the dainty sulphur (Nathalis iole) butterfly. | |
Native Habitats: | Ruderal. |
Distribution and Planting Zones
Natural Range in Florida
USDA Zones
Suitable to grow in:
10A 10B 11 8A 8B 9A 9B

USDA zones are based on minimum winter temperatures
Comments
Ethnobotany: | Young leaves are edible and the sap will stop small wounds from bleeding. | |
General Comments: | Many of us think of this is a weed that we allow to grow for its value to insects. |