Vascular Plants of North Carolina
Account for Crowned Beggarticks - Bidens trichosperma   (Michaux) Britton
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Author(Michaux) Britton
DistributionOuter Coastal Plain only, with collection records just for six counties. Inland records are misidentified. The Jones County specimen at NCU was annotated from B. mitis in 2020.

Que. to SD, south to northern FL, MS, and AR. However, south of OH, IN, and IL, it is found mostly in coastal regions.
AbundanceVery rare and local, but may be somewhat numerous within a population. In fact, of the six records in the NCNHP database, only two are still extant, both within a few miles of each other in mainland Dare County.
HabitatFresh-tidal marshes, brackish marshes, wet roadside ditches and canals through brackish marshes. Cladium jamaicense is usually associated with it.
PhenologyFlowering and fruiting August-October.
IdentificationCrowned Beggarticks is a tall (2-4 feet or more) and very slender (yet showy) plant. The leaves are divided into 3 or 5 (or 7) linear segments that may be hard to see amid surrounding vegetation. Heads are solitary on long stalks which arch outward, and are showy with bright yellow ray florets and orange-yellow disk florets. The skinny, usually untoothed or unlobed leaf segments separate it from other beggarticks.
Taxonomic CommentsA synonym is B. coronata.

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B.A. SorrieDare County, 2013, wet roadside. DarePhoto_natural
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