Bidens parviflora Willd.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Bidens

Characteristics

Annuals. Stems (10-)20-50(-80) cm tall, erect, branched, glabrous or bearing rarely indistinct hairs. Leaves bi-or tripinnatisect with narrow lanceolate or linear-lanceolate to linear segments, with small teeth and incisions on petioles, usually sparsely fine hairy to subglabrous. Capitula discoid, solitary (or 2 or 3) at stem and branch apices, on long peduncles, narrow, subcylindric; calycular bracts linear, shorter than achenes; outer phyllaries green, narrowly linear, herbaceous, finely hairy, shorter than inner ones, inner greenish brown, linear-lanceolate, bearing rarely short bristles only on margin. Florets all tubular, yellow, few. Achenes linear-tetragonal, ± compressed, beset with upright lucid bristles along ribs, otherwise glabrous or finely hairy, unequal in length; inner 15-20(-25) mm, outer shorter, 2 upright awns, 4-5 mm, at top of achenes. Fl. Jul-Sep.
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A herb. It grows each year from seed. It grows 20-80 cm tall. The leaves are divided 2 or 3 times. The segments are narrow.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.6
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Coastal and riverside precipices and rocks, sandy banks, rocky outcrops. Sometimes found as ruderales by stony fences, walls etc.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in marshes and along streams. It grows in wetlands. In Sichuan.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

Uses fodder medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Antidote(Scorpion) (unspecified), Antidote(Spider) (unspecified), Bite(Snake) (unspecified), Wound (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Bidens parviflora world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Liberia, Mongolia, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:185131-1
WFO ID wfo-0000018174
COL ID LSFS
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Bidens pauciflora Bidens messerschmidii Bidens macrosperma Bidens multifida var. multifida Bidens parviflora