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IGKV WEED SEARCHWeed Search Facility for students and scientists |
Black jack, hairy beggertick, Spanish needles |
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| Halbi Name |
 Main Photo of The Weed |
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| Vernacular name | Farmer's Friend, Sui ka ped, Chirchitta | |
| Scientific name | Bidens pilosa L. | |
| Family | Asteraceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Herbaceous, erect, and glabrous with 70 cm tall stem, 4 angled, dichotomously branching, and form taproot. | |
| Leaves | Opposite, petiolate, deeply bipinnated, glabrous or with a few sparse hairs, 20 cm long 12 cm broad.
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Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Single axillary, pedunculate flower head, 1 mm long, glabrous, Pappus absent. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Highly elongated, oblong, 4-angled, widest near middle, apex bears 2-4 stiff barbed spines. Brown to black | |
| Habitat and distribution | Dryland field | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to October | |
| Associated with | Bunds of field | |
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