OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xanthium chinense   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xanthium strumarium var. glabratum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Xanthium strumarium

SYNONYMOUS WITH How many names for a beloved genus? -- Coalescent-based species delimitation in Xanthium (Asteraceae) (Tomasello, 2018)

Xanthium chinense

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Xanthium strumarium

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Xanthium strumarium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-03-002b:

Xanthium strumarium var. glabratum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Xanthium chinense

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Xanthium globosum

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Xanthium inflexum

 

COMMON NAME:
Common Cocklebur


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image of Xanthium chinense, Common Cocklebur

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_xaam2_001_lvd

        

image of Xanthium chinense, Common Cocklebur

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_xain_001_lvd

        

image of Xanthium chinense, Common Cocklebur

JK Marlow    jkm150226_737

February    Pickens County    SC

image of Xanthium chinense, Common Cocklebur

JK Marlow    jkm150226_737b

February    Pickens County    SC

Phyllaries mostly hooked, the whole becoming a hard prickly perigynium (bur), per Flora of North America.

image of Xanthium chinense, Common Cocklebur

JK Marlow    jkm130928_750

September    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Xanthium chinense, Common Cocklebur

JK Marlow    jkm130928_750b

September    Spartanburg County    SC

Leaf blade broadly ovate to roughly orbicular, base cordate or nearly so, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Xanthium chinense, Common Cocklebur

Gill Newberry    gn10_x_cocklebur

October        

Female flowers enclosed by the involucre, forming a bur w hooked bristles, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).

image of Xanthium chinense, Common Cocklebur

Gill Newberry    gn10_x_strumarium

October        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Xanthium chinense   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Xanthium strumarium var. glabratum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Xanthium strumarium

SYNONYMOUS WITH How many names for a beloved genus? -- Coalescent-based species delimitation in Xanthium (Asteraceae) (Tomasello, 2018)
Xanthium chinense

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Xanthium strumarium

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Xanthium strumarium

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-03-002b:
Xanthium strumarium var. glabratum   FAMILY Asteraceae

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Xanthium chinense

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Xanthium globosum

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Xanthium inflexum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1678

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Barnyards, pastures, bottomlands, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Original distribution unclear, but probably native to eastern North America

Common

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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Leaf axils lack spines; fruits are beset with straight and hooked prickles

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Staminate corollas greenish-brown
Staminate corollas 5-lobed; pistillate flowers without corollas
Inferior ovary
Unisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Achene

 

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