Bidens aristosa
Bull Torrey Bot. Club 20: 281. 1893.
Annuals, (15–) 30–60 (–150) cm. Leaves: petioles 10–30 mm; blades lanceolate to lance-linear overall, 30–80 (–150) × 10–30 (–50) mm, usually laciniately pinnatisect, primary lobes 3–7+, 15–60+ × 2–20 mm, bases cuneate, ultimate margins laciniate to serrate, ciliate, apices acuminate, faces glabrous or sparsely scabrellous. Heads in ± corymbiform arrays. Peduncles (10–) 30–80+ mm. Calyculi of 8–12 (–16) usually spreading to reflexed, linear, seldom foliaceous bractlets (4–) 5–7 (–12) mm, margins entire, ciliate, abaxial faces glabrous or ± scabrellous. Involucres ± hemispheric or broader, 6–8 (–12) × 10–15 mm. Phyllaries 7–8 (–13), lanceovate to lance-linear, 6–8 (–12) mm. Ray-florets (5–) 8–10+; laminae yellow, 10–25 mm. Disc-florets (12–) 20–40+; corollas yellowish, 2–3+ mm. Cypselae redbrown to blackish, ± flattened (unequally 3–4-angled), broadly cuneate, outer (4–) 5–6 mm, inner 5–7 mm (lengths mostly 1.5–2.5 times widths), margins (± corky-winged) patently to antrorsely barbed, apices truncate to concave, faces weakly striate, sometimes tuberculate, glabrous or sparsely strigillose; pappi 0, or of 2 (–4) spreading to divergent, antrorsely or retrorsely barbed awns (0.5–) 2–4 (–6) mm.
Phenology: Flowering Aug–Oct(–Nov).
Habitat: Marshes, meadows, pine forests, disturbed sites
Elevation: 0–300 m
Distribution
Ont., Ala., Ark., D.C., Ill., Ind., Ky., La., Md., Mich., Minn., Mo., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va.
Discussion
Selected References
None.