EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: BIDPI
• Preferred name: Bidens pilosa
• Authority: Linnaeus

USA (Texas), Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, Venezuela to Bolivia and Paraguay, southern Brazil, northern Chile and Argentina. Introduced in Euromediterranean region (except northeast), Macaronesia, Western Asia (Arabia, Pakistan), India, Bangladesh, Indochina, Malesia (Malaya, Philippines, Java), China (including Taiwan), Japan, Korea, most of Africa, Madagascar, USA (a few states), northern and central Brazil, New Guinea, New Zealand

It should be noted that B. pilosa in North and Central America has been divided into three species (B. pilosa s.s., B. alba, B. odorata), and that their respective range in other continents is not clear.   

WSSA list of weeds in North America