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Beggarticks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich*
Affiliation:
Sect. Plant Biology, Univ. California, Davis, CA 95616

Extract

The genus Bidens L. is in the Asteraceae (Compositae), the largest family of flowering plants, and one which contains many of the world's weed species. Beggarticks' phenomenal spread and colonization is due partly to their effective pollination mechanisms and their distinctive dispersal adaptations, which allow seed distribution by humans, animals, wind, and water.

Type
Intriguing World of Weeds
Copyright
Copyright © 1994 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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