Small Fruit Beggarticks

Annuals (sometimes persisting), (10–)30–100+ cm. Leaves: petioles 5–20(–30+) mm; blades ± deltate to ovate or lanceolate overall, 30–100 × 10–50+ mm, usually laciniately 1-pinnatisect, ultimate lobes 3(–7), ovate or lanceolate to linear, (5–)25–60(–70+) × (1–)5–10(–12+) mm, bases cuneate, ultimate margins serrate or entire, often ciliolate, apices acute to attenuate, faces glabrous or hirtellous. Heads usually in open, ± corymbiform arrays. Peduncles 20–120 mm. Calyculi of 7–10 spreading, spatulate to linear, seldom foliaceous (± fleshy) bractlets 5–10 mm, margins usually ciliate, abaxial faces glabrous or hirtellous. Involucres hemispheric or broader, 5–6 × 5–8 mm. Phyllaries (6–)8+, lance-ovate to lanceolate, 4–5 mm. Ray florets 8–13; laminae golden yellow, 12–25+ mm. Disc florets 25–50+; corollas yellowish, 2.5–3 mm. Cypselae blackish or brown, flattened or unequally (3–)4-angled, broadly cuneate, outer 2.5–4, inner 3.5–5 mm (lengths mostly 1.5–2.5 times widths), margins not barbed or ciliate, apices ± truncate, faces sometimes obscurely 1-nerved, sometimes tuberculate, glabrous or hirtellous; pappi 0, or of 2 erect, antrorsely barbed awns or ± deltate scales 0.5(–1) mm. 2n = 24.

Coreopsis mitis Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 140. 1803

Bidens mitis, the smallfruit beggarticks, is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the eastern, southeastern, and south-central parts of the United States, from eastern Texas to southern New Jersey.

Bidens mitis is an annual or sometimes perennial herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. It produces numerous yellow flower heads containing both disc florets and ray florets. The species grows in marshes and on the borders of estuaries.