Taxon: Bidens pilosa L.

Common names:

• beggar-ticks   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• black-jack   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• cobblers'-pegs   (Source: F Victoria ) – English
  
• hairy beggar-ticks   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• hairy bidens   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Spanish-needles   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• bident hérissé   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• bident poilu   (Source: EuroMed Plantbase ) – French
  
• herbe d'aiguille   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Zweizahn   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ko-sendangusa   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• carrapicho-de-agulha   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• picão-preto   (Source: Persp New Crops Uses ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• bidente piloso   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• mozote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• nålskära   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: potential for pollution control   (fide J Hazard Mat 161:808-814. 2009)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide PROTOBASE)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):154. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Atlas WWeed; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Colima, Federal District, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Queretaro, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: Guyana; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil - Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Egypt; Libya; Morocco
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Gabon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Israel
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea, South; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Myanmar; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Southeastern Europe: Greece; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Missouri
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands
  South-Central Pacific: Cook Islands; French Polynesia; Pitcairn
  Southwestern Pacific: American Samoa; Fiji; New Caledonia; Niue; Tonga; Wallis and Futuna Islands
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador - Galapagos Islands
  Southern South America: Chile - Easter Island, Juan Fernandez
• widely naturalized

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Lebanon
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Poland
  East Europe: Estonia

• AFRICA
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Nigeria
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India

• exact native range obscure

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bidens pilosa.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bidens pilosa.

Check other web resources for Bidens pilosa L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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