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Bidens cernua

Flowering Plants

Bidens cernua, commonly called nodding beggarticks or nodding bur-marigold, is a species of flowering plant in the aster family Asteraceae, first named by Carl Linnaeus, and found across much of Eurasia and North America. It is an annual herb growing to about 1 meter tall with rigid stems, opposite saw-toothed leaves and yellow flower heads with 6 to 8 ray petals that nod downward as they mature. Its narrow, wedge-shaped seeds carry 3 to 4 barbed bristles. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Living or Extinct

Yes 3

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

G5 Secure 4

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 5

Scientific Name

Bidens cernua 3

Conservation Status

Least Concern 3

Connections

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Source Bidens cernua (Wikidata)

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Sources

1. Bidens cernua (Wikipedia)

Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to

Quote, Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to

Bidens cernua is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae.

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2. GBIF Species API

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3. Bidens cernua (Wikidata)

Wikidata

Wikidata Q27501 (P225 taxon name)
Wikidata P141 (IUCN conservation status) claim, entity QID Q27501
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
Child Taxon Of: Asteraceae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain

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4. NatureServe Explorer: Bidens cernua

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)

"roundedGRank": "G5"

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5. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Asterales

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12418

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"cites_listing":"I/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Asterales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]

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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Asteraceae

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12520

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12520

"active":true,"cites_listing":"NC"

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Plant (Wikipedia)

Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.

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