Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Bidens vulgata Greene

origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Bidens frondosa L. var. puberula Wiegand, Bidens puberula (Wiegand) Rydb., Bidens puberula Wiegand, Bidens vulgata Greene var. puberula (Wiegand) Greene, Bidens vulgata Greene var. schizantha Lunell

Common names:

Beggarticks [Beggar-ticks] (1930-1986) (3, 4, 82)

Big devil's-beggarticks [Big devils beggartick] (Present) (50)

Sticktight (1930, IA) (82)

Tall beggarticks [Tall beggarticks] (1913-1942) (5, 93, 97, 155, 156)