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Bidens tripartita (Three-lobe Beggarticks)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Bidens tripartita is a common and widespread species of plants in the sunflower family, commonly known as Three-lobe Beggarticks, Three-part Beggarticks, Leafy-bracted Beggarticks or Trifid Bur-marigold. It is native to much of Eurasia, North Africa, and North America, with naturalized populations in Australia and on some Pacific Islands. Subspecies + varieties \n* Bidens tripartita subsp. bullatus (L.) Rouy \n* Bidens tripartita var. repens (D.Don) Sherff \n* Bidens tripartita subsp. tripartita \n* Bidens tripartita var. tripartita
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Infraspecies

Bidens tripartita comosa (Attributes)
Bidens tripartita tripartita
Bidens tripartita var. integra
Bidens tripartita var. tripartita

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Hoverflies
Scent [1]  The flowering heads smell like rosin or cedar when they are burnt.
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [1]  Yields a black dye; The part of the plant that is used is not specified. The burning herb repels insects and flies; The flowers yield a yellow dye of indifferent quality when alum is used as a mordant;
Height [1]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Rich
Soil Moisture [2]  Damp
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Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Predators

Campiglossa absinthii[4]
Chromatomyia horticola[4]
Dioxyna bidentis[4]
Napomyza lateralis[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Podosphaera fusca[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0