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Bidens discoidea ~ small beggarticks

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Characteristics:

• FACW

• Michigan C Value: 7

• also known as Bidens discoideus

• commonly known as "swamp beggar–ticks" and "discoid beggar–ticks"

• leaves compound (often 3 parts)

• heads with only disk flowers

• heads rarely with very small rays

• outer phyllaries mostly 4

• outer rays are not ciliate

• achenes are 2–awned

• achene faces, margins, and awns are antrosely pubescent

• native