Bidens pilosa

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Bidens pilosa

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• Status
• Endemism
• Distribution
• Altitudinal range
• Description
• Life-form
• Flowering Period

Status

Naturalized invasive (NA)

Endemism

not endemic

Distribution

Division 1 naturalized invasiveA

Division 2 naturalized invasiveB

Division 3 naturalized invasiveB

Division 5 naturalized invasiveC

Division 6 naturalized invasiveC

A. Hand, R. 2019: Further noteworthy records of vascular plants in Cyprus (1997–2018) and some status clarifications. – Cypricola 12: 1-17, B. Hand, R. 2004: Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus IV. – Willdenowia 34: 427-456, C. Della, A. & Iatrou, G. 1995: New plant records from Cyprus. – Kew Bull. 50: 387-396

Altitudinal range

0–150 mD,E

D. Della, A. & Iatrou, G. 1995: New plant records from Cyprus. – Kew Bull. 50: 387-396, E. Hand, R. 2004: Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus IV. – Willdenowia 34: 427-456

Description

Annual, 30-150 cm, glabrous or sparingly hairy. Stems weak, branched. Leaves petiolate, pinnate with 3-5 leaflets; leaflets ovate, serrate; terminal leaflet petiolulate, lateral leaflets sessile or decurrent. Heads about 1 cm in diameter, discoid or with very short white ray-florets; disc-florets yellow. Outer involucral bracts oblong, connate at base; inner bracts longer and broader. Achenes linear-tetragonal, 8-10 x 1 mm, ribbed, minutely tuberculate and sparsely strigulose; marginal achenes shorter, compressed. Pappus-awns 2-4.

Source: Feinbrun-Dothan N. 1978: Flora Palaestina 3. - Jerusalem.

Life-form

Therophyte

Flowering Period

Jan–Dec