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

Top native cockleburs

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

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3 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 1 Part shade 1

Soil and water

Moisture

Well drained 1 Moist 1 Wet 1

Soil

Sand 1 Loam 1 Clay 1

Soil pH

Acid 1 Neutral 1 Alkaline 1

Form

Habit

Erect 1

Plant type

Annual 2 Poisonous 1 Weed 1 Wildflower 1
  • 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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