beggar's-ticks

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beggar's-ticks - any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing bur marigold, burr marigold, sticktight, beggar-ticks Bidens, genus Bidens - bur marigolds Bidens bipinnata, Spanish needles - common bur marigold of the eastern United States beggar-ticks, Spanish needles - the seed of bur marigolds Bidens coronata, Bidens trichosperma, tickseed sunflower - North American bur marigold with large flowers Bidens tripartita, European beggar-ticks, trifid beggar-ticks, trifid bur marigold - bur marigold of temperate Eurasia Bidens connata, swampy beggar-ticks - bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and Canada common in wet pastures and meadows subshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base