Connecticut beggarticks facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Connecticut beggarticks |
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Bidens
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heterodoxa
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The Connecticut beggarticks (scientific name: Bidens heterodoxa) is a special type of flowering plant. It belongs to the daisy family, which is a very large group of plants! This plant is originally from North America.
You can find the Connecticut beggarticks growing in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. In Canada, it lives in places like Québec, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. In the U.S., it's found in Connecticut.
What Does It Look Like?
The Connecticut beggarticks is an annual herb. This means it grows from a seed, flowers, produces new seeds, and then dies all within one year. It can grow to be about 50 centimeters (or 20 inches) tall. That's about as tall as a large ruler!
Its flowers are quite interesting. They usually have yellow disc florets. These are the tiny, tube-shaped flowers you see in the center of a daisy or sunflower. Most of the time, this plant doesn't have ray florets. Ray florets are the petal-like parts you see around the edge of a daisy. Sometimes, though, you might spot one, two, or even three ray florets on a Connecticut beggarticks flower head.
Where Does It Grow?
This plant loves to live near water! You'll mostly find the Connecticut beggarticks along the edges of estuaries. An estuary is where a river meets the sea, mixing fresh water with salty ocean water.
It also grows in coastal salt marshes. These are wetlands that are flooded by ocean tides. The soil in salt marshes is very salty, which means only special plants like the Connecticut beggarticks can survive there.
