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Devil's Beggar-ticks (Bidens frondosa) in August on Catamount Hill at Bear Brook State Park in southern New Hampshire

...and Devil's Beggar-ticks (Bidens frondosa). I like the artistic involucral bracts (leaf-like structures below the flower head). The guidebook says the seeds have burs to catch a free ride on passing animals -- hence the common name.

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