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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Cockleburs, Ragweeds, and Wild Quinines
  8. Cockleburs

genus

Cockleburs

Xanthium

Traits
Includes
3 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Cockleburs 1 native
  • Rough Cocklebur native
  • Common Cocklebur native
  • Beach Cocklebur
  • Xanthium

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native cockleburs All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Rough Cocklebur Xanthium strumarium caterpillars 12 food 15 flowers 14
  • Common Cocklebur Xanthium orientale caterpillars 8 food 6 flowers 2
  • Spiny Cocklebur Xanthium spinosum caterpillars 3 food 4 flowers 1

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