Xanthium
Also known as cocklebur, cockleburs
Xanthium (cocklebur) is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia and some parts of south Asia.
Species
rough cocklebur
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderAsterales
- FamilyAsteraceae
Native toAfghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas
Observations42,686
General: Xanthium (from Gr. ξανθος (xanthos), yellow or fair-haired
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Research
704 papers- Xanthanolides in Xanthium L.: Structures, Synthesis and Bioactivity.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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Xanthium (cocklebur) is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Heliantheae within the family Asteraceae, native to the Americas and eastern Asia and some parts of south Asia.
==Description== Cockleburs are coarse, herbaceous annual plants growing to tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, with deeply toothed margins. Some species, notably Xanthium spinosum, are also very thorny with long, slender spines at the leaf bases.