Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Xanthium commune
Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl
Xanthium commune Britton , legitimate, scientific
Britton, N.L. in Nash, G.V. (1901), Manual of the Flora of the Northern States and Canada: 912 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Quebec to N. Y., Kans. Mo and Ariz. Type collected by N.L. Britton at Westport, N. Y."
Maiden, J.H. (1921), Newly recorded weeds. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 32: 580 [secondary reference]
common name: common cockleburr [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]
taxonomic synonym of: Xanthium strumarium L. legitimate
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2019), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: Recorded by J.H.Maiden, Agric. Gaz. New South Wales 32: 581 (1921), and listed in synonymy of Xanthium strumarium L. by various authors. The name Xanthium strumarium is now considered to have been misapplied to a complex of several Xanthium species in Australia.