Bidens alba
Common Beggar's Tick or Hairy Beggar's Tick
COMPOSITAE
This three foot wildflower is seen by the side of the road from the North
Carolina areas to Florida and west to California. It is also found in the
West Indies, Mexico, Asia, Africa, and Europe, and well as Central and
South America.
It is an annual weed/wildflower and will bloom year round reproducing by seed.
Its growing pattern is to have erect spreading stems and often will root at the lower nodes. Its leaves have three to nine leaflets. It has a white rayed and yellow disked center flower of one inch. For such a pretty little flower there are barbed fruits at the top that stick to people and animals.
Its habitat is in disturbed areas.