Bidens schimperiSch.Bip. ex Walp.

WFO wfo-0000060942 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Bidens schimperi, photographed by Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team
fig. a Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-03-11 / obs. 65598703
Bidens schimperi, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. b Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14421953
Bidens schimperi, photographed by Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team
fig. c Wilderness Safaris Botswana - Conservation Team, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65598729
Bidens schimperi, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. d Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14421983
Bidens schimperi, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. e Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 14421972
Bidens schimperi, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. f Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193015553
Bidens schimperi, photographed by Robert Taylor
fig. g Robert Taylor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193015852

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Bidens schimperi is native: Angola, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe AngolaDjiboutiEritreaEthiopiaKenyaMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaSomaliaSudan-South SudanTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe
Native distribution of Bidens schimperi, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Djibouti DJI
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Kenya KEN
Malawi MLW
Mozambique MOZ
Namibia NAM
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tanzania TAN
Zambia ZAM
Zimbabwe ZIM

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.

Also published as 13 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 acutiloba Sherff
  • Bidens buchingeri Sch.Bip. ex Asch.
  • Bidens grantii var. stapfioides Sherff
  • Bidens punctata Sherff
  • Bidens schimperi var. brachycera Sherff
  • Bidens schimperi var. greenwayi Sherff
  • Bidens schimperi var. leiocera Sherff
  • Bidens schimperi var. leptocera Sherff
  • Bidens schimperi var. pilosa Sch.Bip. ex Schweinf.
  • Bidens schimperi var. punctata (Sherff) Sherff
  • Bidens schimperi var. schimperi
  • Coreopsis exaristata O.Hoffm.
  • Coreopsis exaristata var. exaristata

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. 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.