| Accepted name: |
Bidens tripartita L. |
| Synonym(s): |
-Bidens comosa (A.Gray) Wiegand
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| English names: |
European Beggar-ticks
Three-parted Beggar-ticks
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| French names: |
Chanvre d'eau
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
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| OPL Code: |
HBIDTR
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
A |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
- |
| Distribution: |
-
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Microhabitat: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
Cultivated as a medicinal plant and also used as a dye plant. In China and Japan the young leaves are collected from the wild and cooked as a vegetable (1). |
| Key Characters: |
- |
