Common Burdock/Lesser Burdock
Arctium minus
Summary 5
Arctium minus, commonly known as lesser burdock, burweed, louse-bur, common burdock, button-bur, cuckoo-button, or wild rhubarb, is a biennial plant. This plant is native to Europe, but has become an invasive weed in Australia, North and South America, and other places.
How to recognize it? 6
Tall; large, heart shaped leaves with hairy undersides and wavy edges. Hollow stalks. Spiny hooked bracts surround small pink-purple flower. Produces burrs.
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- AnRo0002, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20180727Arctium_minus2.jpg
- (c) lubie, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by lubie
- Illustration_Arctium_minor0.jpg, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_Arctium_minor_clean.jpg
- Adapted by bioblitzbanff from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctium_minus
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More Info
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