Bearded Beggarticks Bidens polylepis Blake    Synonyms: Long-bracted Tickseed Sunflower, Ozark Tickseed-sunflower.
Kingdom Plantae   >   Division Tracheophyta   >   Class Magnoliopsida   >   Order Asterales   >   Family Asteraceae   >   Genus Bidens   

Status:

Bearded Beggarticks is native to the central United States, and has become naturalized in the Atlantic states.

Description:

Look for the distinctive bracts, which are numerous, long and narrow, curling or reflexed, and serrate or ciliate on the margins. The leaves are compound, with leaflets that are linear to narrowly lanceolate.

Where to find:

Bearded Beggarticks blooms profusely in some roadside ditches, low fields and marshes in Maryland. The flowers turn sizeable swaths of Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (Dorchester County, Maryland) into a sea of bright yellow in late summer.

There are 192 records in the project database.

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Bearded Beggarticks in Howard Co., Maryland (9/14/2016). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Prince George's Co., Maryland (9/16/2016). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Dorchester Co., Maryland (9/18/2016). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in St. Marys Co., Maryland (9/21/2016). Photo by Tyler Bell. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (9/7/2010). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in bloom in St. Mary's Co., Maryland (9/9/2017). Photo by Tyler Bell. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Caroline Co., Maryland (10/3/2020). (c) Wayne Longbottom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Caroline Co., Maryland (10/3/2020). (c) Wayne Longbottom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Kent Co., Maryland (9/18/2016). Photo by Dan Small. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Montgomery Co., Maryland (8/30/2016). Photo by Elizabeth Miller. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Caroline Co., Maryland (9/13/2016). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (8/24/2011). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Talbot Co., Maryland (9/15/2016). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in bloom, in Dorchester Co., Maryland (9/13/2016). Photo by Bill Hill. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Howard Co., Maryland (9/22/2017). Photo by Bill Hubick. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks, flowers showing characteristic ciliate, curling bracts, in Dorchester Co., Maryland (9/13/2016). Photo by Jane Hill. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Dorchester Co., Maryland (9/2/2017). Photo by Bill Hubick. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Dorchester Co., Maryland (9/18/2016). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (8/24/2011). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Caroline Co., Maryland (8/28/2016). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Talbot Co., Maryland (9/15/2016). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Talbot Co., Maryland (9/21/2020). (c) Wayne Longbottom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Talbot Co., Maryland (9/21/2020). (c) Wayne Longbottom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Talbot Co., Maryland (9/21/2020). (c) Wayne Longbottom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Talbot Co., Maryland (9/21/2020). (c) Wayne Longbottom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Talbot Co., Maryland (9/21/2020). (c) Wayne Longbottom, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Wayne Longbottom. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Prince George's Co., Maryland (9/20/2017). Photo by Bill Harms. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks in Kent Co., Maryland (9/27/2016). Photo by Dan Small. (MBP list)

Bearded Beggarticks blooming in Howard Co., Maryland (9/22/2017). Photo by Bill Hubick. (MBP list)


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