(A) Beggar-ticks; Stick-tight (Bidens frondosa) is 
a plant familiar, to their sorrow, to all who roam the 
woods and fields during Fall. Who has not had the 
pleasant task of sitting down and, one by one, removing 
the little two-hooked, black seeds that hang so closely 
to clothing. 
Beggar-ticks, in appearance, is an uninteresting weed 
common everywhere in moist ground or along roadsides. 
The stem is very branching and is from 1 to 8 feet tall. 
The leaves are compounded of three to five, sharply 
toothed, lance-shaped leaflets. The flower heads are com¬ 
posed of tubular brownish-yellow florets, sometimes with 
no surrounding rays and again with a few, tiny ones. 
(B) Larger Bur-marigold; Brook Sunflower ( Bi¬ 
dens Icevis) is a very attractive species while it is in 
flower, but later, after the little seeds have formed, it 
has the same disagreeable traits common to all the 
members of the genus. The flowers of this species are 
1 to 2 in. across, having 8 or 10 large, yellow, neutral 
rays surrounding the dull-colored disc florets. The stem 
is slender and branching, the leaves lance-shaped and 
toothed. Common in swamps and along brooks. 
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