| Scientific Name: | Bidens frondosa |
| Common Name: | devil's beggarticks |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true), Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Bog, Humus rich, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Orange, Yellow, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Achene, Black, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems square in cross-section and may branch near the top; leaves opposite, pinnately conpounnd with 3(-5) leaflets, most lanceolate, 4–10cm long x 1-3cm wide, margin serrate; heads usually many per shoot, 8-12mm wide, surrounded by green bracts of unequal size and with hairy margins, disk florets orange and about 2mm long, ray florets 0-5 per head, small, yellow, and 8-12mm long; achenes 5-9mm long, dark brown to nearly black, with two hornlike barbed pappi at one end. | |