Taxon: Bidens bipinnata L.

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Common names:

• hemlock beggar-ticks   (Source: PROTABASE ) – English
  
• Spanish-needles   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• po po zhen   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• bident bipenné   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• herbe à aiguilles   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• herbe aiguille   (Source: PROTABASE ) – French
  
• fiederblättriger Zweizahn   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• beijo-de-moça   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  
• carrapicho-agulha   (Source: PROTABASE ) – Portuguese
  
• flikskära   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):153. 1999; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Dict Gard)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Ontario
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  West Tropical Africa: Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Nigeria; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  Caucasus: Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh; Nepal
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Switzerland
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Croatia; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Germany; Hungary
  East Europe: Estonia; Russian Federation - European part
  Southeastern Europe: Montenegro; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: Spain

• exact native range obscure

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):153.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Sherff, E. E. 1937. Thje genus Bidens. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 16:366.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Stewart, R. 1972. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of West Pakistan and Kashmir.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bidens bipinnata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Bidens bipinnata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bidens bipinnata.

Check other web resources for Bidens bipinnata L.:

• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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