Beggartick blossoms

In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt[ | ]

Beggartick blossoms
Used in alchemy
Description
Inventory/slot	Alchemy and crafting
Category	Common item
Type	Alchemy ingredient
Source	Grows wild
Base price	1
Price to buy	3
Price to sell	1
Weight	0

Beggartick blossoms are used to craft the following items:

In The Witcher computer game[ | ]

Beggartick blossoms
Beggartick blossoms
Description
Type	Herb
Contains
Source	grows wild
Price to buy	15
Price to sell	3
ID	`it_ingr_061`

The petals of beggartick blossoms, a common field plant with big red flowers, are used in the production of fisstech. The blossoms of this swamp plant are poisonous and hallucinogenic. According to the woman in the Brickmakers' village, normally this plant grows in the water, but the variety found in the Swamp Forest outside Vizima grows on land.

Sources[ | ]

Swamp Plants
You can obtain this journal entry by giving food to one of the old women in the Outskirts or by giving the Scoia'tael dressed as a huntress feainnewedd in the non-human camp.
This entry can also be obtained by giving honeycomb, or 50 , to one of the women in the Brickmakers' village after midnight, during Chapter II, or in Chapter III after having completed Reaping Time. She can be found in the hut facing Vaska's house.

Notes[ | ]

Yaren Bolt tells Geralt about beggartick flowers during the Flowers and Gold quest. During the quest, asking some Brickmakers you will get the information that the blossoms are used as gifts to the water lords.
In the real world, 'beggartick' is used as a name for several flowers in the Bidens-genus of the family Asteraceae.

Trivia[ | ]

"Beggartick" exists also in reality. "Bidens" are a genus of flowering plants from the Asteraceae family.
Some plants of this species are used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine.