Smooth Beggarticks
Bidens laevis
Smooth beggarticks (bur marigold) is a wetland perennial that blazes with large golden daisies in fall along pond edges and marshes, a showy, easy native for consistently wet, sunny ground and a fine late bee plant.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- moist, wet
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- September, October, November
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, songbirds
- Landscape uses
- border, rain garden
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, FL, GA, LA, MA, MD, MS, NC, NJ, NY, PA, SC, TX, VA