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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Asteraceae
Bidens connatus Muhl. ex Willd.
purple-stem beggar-ticks, purple-stemmed tickseed
Bidens: derived from Latin bis, "twice," and dens, "tooth," hence meaning "2-toothed" and referring to the bristles on the achenes
connatus: connate, fused together
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 4"-80" tall, mostly smooth forb with purplish to green stems |
| Flower: | head with or without 1 1/2" rays, yellowish to orange disk 1/3"-1/2" wide, leafy bracts usually longer than the disk; inflorescence of a few stalked, erect heads; blooms Aug.-Oct. |
| Fruit: | 2-4(6) barbed awns, the center one usually the shortest  |
| Leaf: | mostly on up to 1" long, winged stalk, toothed and often deeply cut but simple |
| Habitat: | wet; disturbed areas |
| Notes: | similar to B. comosus; differing in stem and disk color and the fruit. |
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