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. Recorded as a minor food plant in Indigenous ethnobotany, without detail on which part was used.
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 3.3–3.3 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- June, July, August, September, October, November, December
- Bloom colors
- yellow
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- border
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV