Another name for beggarticks is stick-tights. Walking through a stand of these plants in late summer or autumn results in numerous barbed nutlets adhering to clothing. Stem erect or sometimes growing along the ground and rooting at the nodes, smooth or hairy, often branched, up to 5' tall. Flowers many, crowded together into a head, the outer yellow and flat, the inner yellow and tubular, forming a disk, with several heads per plant, each head subtended by 5-8 narrow, leafy bracts.
Flower heads are erect, but then become nodding with age.
A waterside plant Distinguished from other species by its undivided simple leaves, its nodding heads, and its somewhat winged fruits. Also Eurasia Known from St. Louis and Cook Counties in the Minnesota Arrowhead. Fruits eaten by ducks. Though rarely sown in water and bog gardens, it often appears there by natural means. One of five species of Bidens known to occur in northeastern Minnesota.