Bidens.—Spanish Needles.
Botanical name:
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Bidens frondosa L.
Engl.: devil's beggar-ticks, beggar ticks, common beggar-ticks, devil's beggartick, stick-tights.
Deu.: Dichtbelaubter Zweizahn, Schwarzfrüchtiger Zweizahn.
Fran.: bident à fruits noirs, bident feuillé.
Ital.: forbicina peduncolata.
Span.: acahualillo.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: The American Eclectic Dispensatory, by John King, 1854.
Classic texts: Journals: TNEMA 1882-1883.
Classic texts: Scudder 1870.
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