See text Bombyliid fly on Bidens laevis Image copyleft: Image taken by me, released under GFDL Pollinator 05:48, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Scientific classification - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Asterales are an order of dicotyledonous flowering plants which include the composite family Asteraceae (sunflowers and daisies) and its related families. ... Genera many, see list The aster or sunflower family (Family Asteraceae or, alternatively Family Compositae) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ...
Bidens is a genus with about 200 species in the family Asteraceae. The species Bidens laevis, also known as "beggar tick," is a common fall flower in the southeastern USA. Genera many, see list The aster or sunflower family (Family Asteraceae or, alternatively Family Compositae) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. ... Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ...
Species
Bidens alba (Linnaeus) A. P. Candolle
Bidens alba (L.) DC. -- Romerillo
Bidens amplectens Sherff -- Kokolau
Bidens amplissima Greene -- Vancouver Island Beggarticks
Bidens is a member of the Asteraceae (formerly called Compositae) family, which is one of the dominant families of plants contributing medicinal species not only in China but worldwide.
Bidens tripartita (longbacao), which has been known for many centuries as a remedy for chronic dysentery, was used in a clinical trial to treat 500 cases of dysentery, 65 cases of acute enteritis, 248 cases of chronic enteritis (15).
Bidens is a popular herb in China, mainly used as a folk medicine, meaning that it is collected and used by laypersons to treat common ailments: dysentery, skin diseases, poisonous bites.
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