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Products > Bidens ferulifolia 'Peters Goldteppich'
 
Bidens ferulifolia 'Peters Goldteppich' - Peter's Gold Carpet Tickseed

Note: This plant is no longer in stock. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.  

 
Habit and Cultural Information
Category: Perennial
Family: Asteraceae (Sunflowers)
Origin: Southwest (U.S.) (North America)
Evergreen: Yes
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloomtime: Year-round
Fragrant Flowers: Yes
Synonyms: [B. ferulaefolia]
Height: 1-2 feet
Width: 2-3 feet
Exposure: Full Sun
Summer Dry: Yes
Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs
Winter Hardiness: 10-15° F
Bidens ferulifolia 'Peters Goldteppich' (Peter's Gold Carpet Tickseed) A vigorous and dense low-growing perennial (near frost free climates) that grows to 10 to 15 inches tall by 2 to 3 feet wide, cascading over walls or pots with freely branching stems bearing small narrow dark leaves and a year round appearance of large golden fragrant yellow flowers that are held up and beyond the foliage on wiry peduncles - individual flowers don't last long but there are always more coming along to replace fading ones. Plant in full sun to light shade in a well drained soil with regular to infrequent irrigation. Hardy and evergreen to 25°F and reportedly root hardy possibly as low as 10°F - used elsewhere as a long blooming annual that flowers from late spring to mid fall. This carefree plant is heat, drought and wind tolerant and usually requires no deadheading, though this will promote a denser plant. It is a great small landscape plant and excels as a companion plant to larger specimens in container plantings and makes a nice hanging basket. This native of North American grows naturally from as far north as Yavapai and Navajo counties in Arizona east into New Mexico and south through northern Mexico at elevations up to 6,500 feet. Common names include Threadleaf Tickseed, Bur Marigold, Apache Beggarticks, Fern-leaved Beggarticks - names that all reference the small seeds of Bidens that cling to clothing. This selection was made by Peter Wicki-Freidl in Neu St. Johann, Switzerland in 1996 from the results of random crosses between Bidens ferulifolia 'Goldmarie' and Bidens ferulifolia 'Procumbens' that was done in 1995. It was selected for its earlier flowering, more compact and with a denser growth habit and better overall plant performance than the parent plants. It received US Plant Patent PP12,880, which has since expired. 

Information displayed on this page about Bidens ferulifolia 'Peters Goldteppich' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.

 
San Marcos Growers closed for regular business at the end of 2025 as the property is being developed for affordable housing.
While our gates remain closed, we will open them by appointment so we can liquidate remaining plants, supplies and equipment. The plants remaining in the field are listed on our Live Inventory Page.