• Family : ASTERACEAE
  (Composite Or Aster Or Sunflower Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : GENDA FAMILY (गेंदा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMPOSITAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Bidens pilosa L.
• Common name : Hairy beggarticks
• Vernacular name : Kithachedi, Snehakoora (Malayalam)
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : Open forests of the Hilly areas
• Comments / notes : Occasional on open hills, weed in fallow fields and wastelands
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vishakapatnam district, Chittoor district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Thrissur district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Tiruvannamalai district
• World Distribution : Pantropical
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah, T & Ali Moulali, D., 1997. Flora of Andhra Pradesh. Vol. 2; Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Bidens pilosa var. minor. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

Botanical Description