Bidens hyperborea facts for kids

Bidens hyperborea is a special kind of plant often called the estuary beggarticks or northern beggar-ticks. It's a type of flowering plant that belongs to the daisy family. This means it's related to sunflowers, dandelions, and, of course, daisies! You can find this plant growing along coastlines.

About Estuary Beggarticks

Estuary beggarticks is an annual herb. This means it lives for only one growing season. It sprouts from a seed, grows, flowers, produces its own seeds, and then dies, all within a single year. This plant can grow quite tall, sometimes reaching up to 70 centimeters (about 28 inches) high.

What the Plant Looks Like

This plant produces bright yellow flower heads. These are not single flowers, but rather a cluster of many tiny flowers grouped together. Sometimes you'll see just one flower head, and other times there might be two or three on a single plant.

Each flower head has two main parts:

• Disc florets: These are the tiny flowers in the center of the flower head. They look like a small disc.
• Ray florets: These are the petal-like structures that surround the disc florets. They are what most people think of as the "petals" of a daisy.

Where Estuary Beggarticks Grow

Bidens hyperborea loves to grow in wet, salty places. You can find it in salt marshes. These are coastal wetlands that are regularly flooded by ocean tides. It also grows along the banks of marine estuaries. An estuary is where a river meets the sea, mixing fresh water with salty ocean water.

This plant is found in many parts of eastern Canada. This includes places like Labrador, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. It also grows in the northeastern United States, in states such as Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York.