(First upload on January 8 2012. Last on November 13 2018) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Asteraceae (キク科) > Bidens pilosa
Bidens L. (センダングサ)Kosendangusa (コセンダングサ, 小栴檀草), cobbler's pegs or Spanish needleLifeform: weedy annual forb Distribution: extotic worldwide, including Japan (probably originating from South Africa) Habitat: ruderal, such as roadsides |
Seed dispersal: animal (external) by hooked barbs Involucral segment: short ↔ B. frondosa: long Chromosome number: 2n = 24, 36, 48, or 72 var. bisetosa S. Ohtani et S. Suzuki (アワユキセンダングサ) var. minor (Blume) Sherff (コシロノセンダングサ/シロノセンダングサ), developing white ligulate flowers var. pilosa (コセンダングサ, s.s.), without ligulate flowers var. radiata Sch. Bip. (タチアワユキセンダングサ) |
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var. pilosa. [1-3] at Yodogawa Riverside Park, Osaka, western Japan, on October 29 2011. [4/5] along Sophia Street, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on November 14 2014. [6] near a cemetery (Koumyoujoen (光明浄苑), Machida City, Tokyo, on December 10 2017.
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[1-3] on a bank along Sophia Street, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on October 19 2018.