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Asteraceae
Arizona beggar-ticks
Bidens aurea
Also known as Bidens luxurians, Bidens heterophylla, Bidens ludens, Kerneria ferulifolia
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Yellow Flowers · Pollinator · Daisy · Bidens · Asteraceae · Wildflower · Border Plant · Long Blooming · Butterfly Garden · Hummingbird
Arizona beggar-ticks is a cheerful, daisy-like perennial that produces golden-yellow flowers from summer through fall, making it a long-blooming addition to borders and wildlife gardens. It adapts well to average soils and tolerates partial shade, though it blooms most prolifically in full sun. Deadhead spent flowers regularly to extend the blooming season and prevent unwanted self-seeding.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately; allow the top inch of soil to dry between waterings · Every 7-10 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5–8.6
- Temperature
- -25°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 20 ft – 40 ft
- Spread
- 20 ft
- Spacing
- 18 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- Yellow
- Foliage
- Green · Coarse
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Baleares, Canary Is., France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Morocco, New South Wales, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sicilia
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Hummingbirds
Sources: trefle, usda
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