Bidens alba (L.)DC.

BEGGARTICKS; ROMERILLO

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This species has been considered non-native to Florida (FNA, vol. 21). Some recent treatments have opted for recognizing only B. pilosa s.l. (FNA, vol. 21; Melechert 2010; León de la Luz & Medel Narváez 2013), while others have continued to recognize B. alba, B. odorata, and B. pilosa s.s. (Ganders & Nagata 1983; Ballard 1986). Reportedly B. alba and B. pilosa s.s. are interfertile (Norton 1991). Bidens alba has been epitypified by a specimen from Veracruz, Mexico, the putative provenance of the original material (Ferrer-Gallego 2016). The epitype had been annotated by Ballard as B. alba.

Native FACW- (NWPL) FAC (DEP)