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burdocks
Arctium
Arctium is a genus of biennial plants commonly known as burdock, family Asteraceae. Native to the Old World, several species have been widely introduced worldwide.
52 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Lesser & Wood Burdocks
complexArctium minus
greater burdock
speciesArctium lappa
Woolly Burdock
speciesArctium tomentosum
Lesser × Woolly Burdock
hybridArctium × mixtum
Greater × Woolly Burdock
hybridArctium × ambiguum
Greater × Lesser Burdock
hybridArctium × nothum
Arctium nidulans
speciesArctium nidulans
Arctium umbrosum
speciesArctium umbrosum
Arctium leiospermum
speciesArctium leiospermum
Arctium karatavicum
speciesArctium karatavicum
Arctium pallidivirens
speciesArctium pallidivirens
Arctium × neumanii
hybridArctium × neumanii
Arctium lappaceum
speciesArctium lappaceum
Arctium palladinii
speciesArctium palladinii
Arctium korolkowii
speciesArctium korolkowii
Arctium alberti
speciesArctium alberti
Arctium atlanticum
speciesArctium atlanticum
Greater × Northern Burdock
hybridArctium lappa × nemorosum
Arctium triflorum
speciesArctium triflorum
Arctium grandifolium
speciesArctium grandifolium
Arctium arctiodes
speciesArctium arctiodes
Arctium schmalhausenii
speciesArctium schmalhausenii
Arctium echinopifolium
speciesArctium echinopifolium
Arctium horrescens
speciesArctium horrescens
Arctium egregium
speciesArctium egregium
Arctium abolinii
speciesArctium abolinii
Arctium pterolepidum
speciesArctium pterolepidum
Arctium pentacanthoides
speciesArctium pentacanthoides
Arctium × leiobardanum
hybridArctium × leiobardanum
Arctium haesitabundum
speciesArctium haesitabundum
Arctium korshinskyi
speciesArctium korshinskyi
Arctium evidens
speciesArctium evidens
Arctium fedtschenkoanum
speciesArctium fedtschenkoanum
Arctium elatum
speciesArctium elatum
Arctium dolichophyllum
speciesArctium dolichophyllum
Arctium chloranthum
speciesArctium chloranthum
Arctium aureum
speciesArctium aureum
Arctium amplissimum
speciesArctium amplissimum
Arctium × semiconstrictum
hybridArctium × semiconstrictum
Arctium × dualis
hybridArctium × dualis
Arctium vavilovii
speciesArctium vavilovii
Arctium ugamense
speciesArctium ugamense
Arctium tomentellum
speciesArctium tomentellum
Arctium sardaimionense
speciesArctium sardaimionense
Arctium refractum
speciesArctium refractum
Arctium radula
speciesArctium radula
Arctium pseudarctium
speciesArctium pseudarctium
Arctium pentacanthum
speciesArctium pentacanthum
Arctium medians
speciesArctium medians
Arctium macilentum
speciesArctium macilentum
Amberbopsis
sectionAmberbopsis
Arctium anomalum
speciesArctium anomalum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1326
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.106
Bencao Gangmu, Volume Upper-Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.172
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 11)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.148
Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration
Xu Guangqi · 1909 · p.746
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Arctium in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 59571.