Colors

Data mode

Account

Login
Sign up

Collapse this

Support the Flora of the Southeastern US

2024 has been a banner year for making the best flora we can imagine. We've created:
With financial support from people like you, we are aiming even higher in 2025. Together we can accomplish all this: Vote on our 2025 priorities
  • Add Global Conservation Ranks (GRanks) vote
  • Professional graphic keys (polyclaves) to individual families/genera vote
  • 2 new FloraQuest apps: Florida & Mid-South vote
  • Image overlays highlighting diagnostic characters with arrows vote
  • iNaturalist integration in FloraQuest vote
Write-in vote: vote
We've set a goal of recruiting 200 ongoing supporters to donate $15 or more each month in 2025. Please help us reach this goal and make next year's flora even better:
Copy permalink to share

Xanthium chinense P. Miller. Cocklebur. Phen: Aug-Oct. Hab: Barnyards, pastures, bottomlands, other disturbed areas. Dist: Widespread in e. North America, and now nearly cosmopolitan; its original distribution uncertain. Despite the name, this species is likely native to e. North America.

Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy : = Tomasello (2018); = Xanthium strumarium L. ssp. cavanillesii (Schouw) D.Löve & Dans. var. glabratum (DC.) Cronquist – Löve & Dansereau (1959); = Xanthium strumarium L. var. glabratum (DC.) Cronquist – C, G, GrPl, K1, NE, NY, Oh3, RAB, SE1, W; > Xanthium americanum Walter; > Xanthium chasei Fernald – F, Il; > Xanthium chinense Mill. – F, Il, Tat; > Xanthium glabrum Small; > Xanthium globosum Shull – F, Il; > Xanthium inflexum Mack. & Bush – F, Il; < Xanthium strumarium L. – Bah, Fl7, FNA21, GW2, K3, K4, Mex, Mi, Mo2, Pa, Tn, Tx, Va, WH3

Links to other floras: < Xanthium strumarium - FNA21

Show in key(s)

Show parent genus

Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Great Plains: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Midwest: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Northcentral & Northeast: FAC (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)

Heliophily : 9

Your browser does not support SVGs

Hover over a shape, letter, icon, or arrow on the map for definition or see the legend.

image of plant© Dan Spaulding, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Dan Spaulding source CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Dan Spaulding, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Dan Spaulding source CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Dan Spaulding, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Dan Spaulding source CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Dan Spaulding, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Dan Spaulding source CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plantno rights reserved, uploaded by Ken Kneidel source CC0 | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Conor McMahon, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Conor McMahon source CC-BY-NC | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Dan Spaulding, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Dan Spaulding source CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Dan Spaulding, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Dan Spaulding source CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷

Feedback

See something wrong or missing on about Xanthium chinense? Let us know here: (Please include your name and email if at all complicated so we can clarify if needed.) We greatly appreciate feedback, and will include updates from you in our next webapp update, which can take a few months.


« show previous | back to original search ↑ | show next »