Spanish Needle Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Spanish Needle (Bidens pilosa) is an upright annual of the daisy family, Asteraceae, native to tropical America and now a common weed of roadsides, fields and gardens throughout the warm regions of the world, including Hawaii. It grows 30 to 150 cm tall with square, branching stems and opposite leaves divided into three to five toothed leaflets, and bears small flower heads with yellow centers and often a few short white rays. The slender black seeds, tipped with two to four barbed bristles, cling to clothing and fur like needles. We extract the dried leaf.