Bidens is a member of the Asteraceae (formerly called Compositae) family, which is one of the dominant families of plants contributing medicinal species not only in China but worldwide.
Bidens tripartita (longbacao), which has been known for many centuries as a remedy for chronic dysentery, was used in a clinical trial to treat 500 cases of dysentery, 65 cases of acute enteritis, 248 cases of chronic enteritis (15).
Bidens is a popular herb in China, mainly used as a folk medicine, meaning that it is collected and used by laypersons to treat common ailments: dysentery, skin diseases, poisonous bites.
Bidens amplissima in BC(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Bidens amplissima is a rare Pacific Northwest endemic species that is found only in coastal areas in British Columbia and adjacent Washington State.
In BC, Bidens amplissima is found on Vancouver Island as far north as Campbell River, and in the lower Fraser Valley in municipalities such as Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey, Delta, Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows and Aldergrove.
Habitat for this species is the narrow alluvial shoreline margins of rivers and ponds, in bogs and willow wetlands, and in the tidal reaches of the Fraser River in British Columbia: at least one station occurs in an old riverbed.
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Observations have shown that they are also good climbers as they move up and cling on mangrove stems tightly during high tides, possibly as a means to avoid prolonged immersion as well as predation from aquatic predators.
bidens on open sand-/mudflats (that are immediately next to the mangroves) is extremely unusual.
Perisesarma bidens are swift and alert, and therefore difficult to catch.
It is a southern cousin to Bidens tripartita, the European bur marigold, which has an ancient history in European herbal medicine.
In Brazil, the plant is most commonly known as picão preto or carrapicho; in Peru it is known as amor seco or pirca.
"Bidens pilosa suppresses interleukin-1beta-induced cyclooxygenase-2 expression through the inhibition of mitogen activated protein kinases phosphorylation in normal human dermal fibroblasts." J.
They are especially fond of the yellow disk flowers like this Bidens coronata, a common plant in native prairie marshes, where it grows among tussocks of blue-joint grass.
Bidens species bloom in late summer, often in seasonally flooded areas of marshes.
Bidens coronata on the Northeast Wetland Flora web site hosted by the Norther Prairie Wildlife Research Center.
Bidens heterophylla was the name attached to the plant at the time, a name which the USDA Plants Database reports is a synonym of Bidens aurea.
It is a white flower similar to Bidens aurea and is commonly known as Spanish needles or tickseed.
I am constantly amazed at the variety of insects that feed on both the nectar and pollen of the flowers, ranging from myriad butterflies and moths to honeybees, wasps and a type of beetle that creates a foam at the base of the flower (I haven't identified that beetle).
Mesoplodon bidens(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Observations of Sowerby's Beaked Whales (Mesoplodon bidens) in the Gully, Nova Scotia.
Sowerby's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon bidens) is known from only a handful of sightings and strandings; few descriptions of group composition or surfacing behaviour are available.
During 1997 and 1998, groups of Sowerby's Beaked Whales were observed in the Gully, a submarine canyon off eastern Canada, on four occasions.
