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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Arctium lappa   FAMILY Asteraceae__   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arctium lappa   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Arctium lappa

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

Arctium lappa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-26-001:

Arctium lappa   FAMILY Asteraceae__

 

COMMON NAME:
Greater Burdock


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image of Arctium lappa, Greater Burdock

USDA Forest Service / A Guide to Medicinal Plants of Appalachia. 1969    mpa_page_059

        

image of Arctium lappa, Greater Burdock

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_arla3_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Arctium lappa   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Arctium lappa   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Arctium lappa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Arctium lappa

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-26-001:
Arctium lappa   FAMILY Asteraceae__

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3933

Forb
Biennial

Habitat: Fields and roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Disc: Reddish-purple/ Lavender
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene

 

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