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Spanish needle is happy in moderately dry, full-sun areas, as well as in grasslands or pastures, clearings in wooded areas, in wetlands, along roadsides, the banks of ditches, in nurseries, and in your very own yard! You can even find them growing happily in the containers of your most prized plants!
24 cze 2020 · The weed of this week is Spanish Needles (Bidens spp.). In Florida, there are Eight species of Bidens present. They are all commonly referred to as Spanish needles or beggar-ticks. Bidens alba and Bidens Pilosa are two of the common Bidens spp. found in container nurseries and landscapes in Florida.
Spanish needles is found throughout most of Florida — all but few Panhandle counties, in fact — the Southeast U.S. and a few other, scattered states as far north as Massachusetts. But it's generally considered a tropical plant, native of the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and South America.
6 lis 2019 · Bidens alba, commonly known as shepherd’s needle, demon spike grass, bur-marigold, pitchfork weed, and Spanish needles, is a short-lived perennial or annual, flowering plant. It is a member of the aster family and closely related to daisy, echinacea, and sunflowers.
1 paź 2024 · Spanish Needles, Beggarticks, and many other names can be given to this plant. It reproduces prolifically with it’s generous seeds that stick to anything and everything nearby, a single plant can produce 3,000-6,000 seeds. It is a wonderful wildflower for pollinators and is a larval host for the Dainty sulphur butterfly.
UF/IFAS Weed Specialist Dr. Chris Marble provides a quick answer on Spanish Needles, which you might be finding in your Florida yard! For additional Information, visit:...
4 sty 2021 · Spanish needles (Bidens alba) I almost didn’t include this plant. It’s everywhere, and it’s not terribly exciting. But it makes flowers throughout the year, flowers that many pollinators like. Florida Native Plant Society’s Lilly Anderson-Messec called it one of the three most important plants for honeybees in the southeast.
