Bidens reptansG.Don

manzanilla trepador

WFO wfo-0000136590 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bidens reptans, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. a Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-11-24 / obs. 192713217
Bidens reptans, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. b Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192709651
Bidens reptans, photographed by Saban-Sequén, E.A.
fig. c Saban-Sequén, E.A., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132056958
Bidens reptans, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. d Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58908912
Bidens reptans, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. e Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58038482
Bidens reptans, photographed by alejandrozab
fig. f alejandrozab, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53981936
Bidens reptans, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. g Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 1665484
Bidens reptans, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. h Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61860837

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Bidens reptans is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Windward Is. Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCosta RicaCubaEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáPuerto RicoVenezuela Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Bidens reptans, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Puerto Rico PUE
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 164 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 7.3 °C 13.2 °C 19.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.0 °C 28.1 °C 34.0 °C
Annual rainfall 943 mm 1,533 mm 4,412 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 16 mm 97 mm 341 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 164 research-grade observations of Bidens reptans that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 25 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bidens antiguensis var. procumbens (Donn.Sm.) Roseman
  • Bidens antiguensis var. salvadorensis Roseman
  • Bidens brittonii Sherff
  • Bidens coreopsidis DC.
  • Bidens coreopsidis var. procumbens Donn.Sm.
  • Bidens coreopsidis var. reptans (L.) DC.
  • Bidens dissecta Sherff
  • Bidens mexicana Sherff
  • Bidens reptans var. bipartita O.E.Schulz
  • Bidens reptans var. bipartitus O.E.Schulz
  • Bidens reptans var. brittonii (Sherff) O.E.Schulz ex Urb.
  • Bidens rubifolia var. coreopsidis (DC.) Baker
  • Bidens squarrosa var. atrostriata Roseman
  • Bidens squarrosa var. hondurensis Roseman
  • Bidens squarrosa var. indivisa (B.L.Rob.) Roseman
  • Bidens squarrosa var. speciosa Roseman
  • Bidens tereticaulis var. antiguensis O.E.Schulz
  • Bidens tereticaulis var. indivisa B.L.Rob.
  • Bidens urbanii Greenm.
  • Coreopsis brasiliensis Colla
  • Coreopsis reptans L.
  • Coreopsis scandens Sessé & Moc.
  • Coreopsis scandens Sm.
  • Coreopsis variifolia Salisb.

and 1 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.