{"id":380,"date":"2017-03-31T11:54:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2017-03-31T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:54:54","slug":"the-curious-case-of-bidens-alba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/the-curious-case-of-bidens-alba\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Case of Bidens Alba"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BidensAlbaSpout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/BidensAlbaSpout-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Overhead shot of a small sprout with soil and pine needles visible. Field of view 3 inches\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cotyledons and first two true leaves of a Bidens alba plant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>An introduction to<em> Bidens alba<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Bidens<\/em>, as in two teeth.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alba<\/em>, as in white.<\/p>\n<p>I call attention to this plant because it is a favorite of beneficial insects.\u00a0 It grew wild in my life before I knew what it was.\u00a0 I called it the assassin host daisy because it always seemed to have the beneficial assassin bug resting on its leaves.\u00a0 Here is a photo of the assasin bug from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/milkweed-assassin-bug\/\">milkweed assassin post<\/a>. \u00a0So, sometimes to me the flower is the assassin host daisy, but more reliably, Bidens alba, or Bidens.\u00a0 The photo above show the cotyledons and the first two true leaves.\u00a0 A sprout is an example of a new beginning, and this is the just beginning of the story of Bidens.<\/p>\n<p>To me this plant is a joy and a gift.<\/p>\n<p>I understand why many consider it a weed.<\/p>\n<p>That is why the case of Bidens alba is curious.<\/p>\n<p>Seeds available in the store.<\/p>\n<p>Here is another person\u2019s perspective:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eattheweeds.com\/spanish-needles-pitchfork-weed\/\">http:\/\/www.eattheweeds.com\/spanish-needles-pitchfork-weed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An introduction to Bidens alba Bidens, as in two teeth. Alba, as in white. I call attention to this plant because it is a favorite of beneficial insects.\u00a0 It grew wild in my life before I knew what it was.\u00a0 I called it the assassin host daisy because it always seemed to have the beneficial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}