Bidens campylotheca subsp. campylotheca is an erect perennial herb 0.7-4 m tall with sprawling horizontal lateral branches. The leaves are pinnately compound, usually 7-29 cm long, including the petiole. The 3-5 leaflets are ovate-lanceolate (egg-shaped-lance-shaped); lanceolate is usually 3-16 cm long and 0.4-8 cm wide with serrate (saw-toothed) margins. The inflorescence is a compound cyme or diffuse panicle with 3-20 heads in terminating lateral branches at 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter, including ray florets. The peduncles are widely divergent from 2-19 cm long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. There are 5-8 ray florets per head at 9-17 mm long and 4-6 mm wide with yellow rays. There are 25-45 disk florets per head that are perfect and often divergent so that the heads have a loose, globose appearance, and the corolla is yellow. The fruit is a brownish-black achene that is irregularly twisted or coiled, usually wingless, 7-14 mm long, 1.2-1.7 mm wide, glabrous, and typically awnless. It occurs in wet or mesic forests to subalpine woodlands at 100 – 2100 meters.
Bean-shaped (Reniform): Resembling the shape of a kidney or bean.
Square or Oblong: Angular shape with all sides more or less equal or longer than wide.
Triangular: Three-sided shape, broadest below the middle.
Elliptic: Rounded at both ends. shaped like an ellipse or oval.
Ovate or Obovate: egg-shaped, broader at one end.
Linear: Extremely long and narrow, with sides usually parallel.
Round: Appears circular, with length and width roughly the same.
Cardioid (Heart-Shaped): One edge has a prominent double curve into two lobes.
Cylindrical: A cylinder with parallel sides and a circular cross-section.
Discoid: Resembling a disc or plate with two relatively flat surfaces.
Fusiform: Spindle-shaped, tapering at both ends.
Globose: Spherical.
Lenticular: Resembling a lens with two convex surfaces.
Ovoid: Egg-shaped.
Plano-convex: Having a flat ventral (planar) surface and a curved dorsal (convex) surface.
Polygonal: Having more than three flat faces meeting at angles.
Sectoroid: Resembling a segment of an orange with two relatively flat faces and one curved face.
Subglobose/ellipsoid: Inflated shape but less than spherical.
Trigonous: Having three faces that meet at a distinct angle; triangular in cross-section.
Endangered species (E) are species that are so rare they’re in danger of becoming extinct.
Threatened species (T) are species that are likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of their range.
Species of Concern (SOC) are species about which there are some concerns regarding status and threats, but insufficient information is available to list the species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Plant Extinction Prevention (PEP) is a state status for rare plants that focuses its efforts on species that have fewer than 50 remaining wild individuals.
Orthodox seeds (desiccation-tolerant): can be dried to an internal seed moisture of less than 12% water and stored at freezing temperatures.
Intermediate seeds (temperature-sensitive) tend to age faster than orthodox seeds and may have only a 5-year lifespan when stored at -20°C. They are recommended for storage at 5°C.
Recalcitrant seeds (desiccation-sensitive): cannot be stored in a conventional freezer as they cannot survive after drying and/or freezing at -20°C. They are recommended for cryopreservation storage.