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Bidens pilosa L., common names: cobbler's pegs, farmer's friend, stick-tights, pitch-forks, burr marigold. Originally from tropical America. This plant is an erect almost glabrous to densely hairy woody herb that grows to 1m or more high, with angular branches. Habitats include but are not limited to any disturbed or waste ground, roadsides, and areas that are dry and infertile.

"This very common weed grows in a wide variety of habitats. Cobbler's pegs (Bidens pilosa) is well known as a weed of gardens, parks, crops, pastures, roadsides, disturbed sites and waste areas, but it also invades waterways, rainforest margins, open woodlands and coastal sites. For this reason it is also regarded as an environmental weed in New South Wales and Queensland., Cobbler's pegs (Bidens pilosa) is considered to be among the 200 most invasive plant species in south-eastern Queensland. Dense populations can out-compete native species, and are particularly troublesome in revegetation sites and on the exposed margins of bushland."

This species is a common weed of crops, fallows, orchards, vineyards, waste areas, disturbed sites and populated areas (e.g. gardens, footpaths, parks, etc.). It is also found in re-vegetation areas, forest gaps and margins, open woodlands, urban bushland, riparian vegetation and coastal enviorns.

Spray FireHawk Bioherbicide Concentrate: 50 mL/L of water. Respray if required