Spanish Needles
Bidens bipinnata
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand & more
- Flowering
- August-January
How to identify Spanish Needles
Identify Spanish Needles by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm flower colour: Yellow.
- Confirm flower arrangement: Head.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: August-January.
- In India, compare location records such as Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Asteraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Spanish Needles.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Bidens bipinnata
- Genus
- Bidens
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Manipur, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-January
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Spanish Needles itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Yellowrecorded
- Flower arrangement
- HeadrecordedA dense, tight cluster of many small stalkless flowers, packed into a rounded or flat head.“It produces white or yellow flower heads each containing both disc florets and ray florets.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Head
- Fruit
- Achene
Characters marked “recorded” are for Spanish Needles itself; the rest are typical of the Asteraceae family — flowering plants only.
About Spanish Needles
A member of the Asteraceae family, Spanish Needles (Bidens bipinnata) is a herb. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and 4 other states. Flowering and fruiting run from August to January.
Asteraceae
Daisy/Sunflower family
Spanish Needles belongs to the Asteraceae family.
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