Ambrosia acanthicarpa Hooker (Q2719)

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Ambrosia acanthicarpa is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Ambrosia
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Ambrosia acanthicarpa Hooker
Ambrosia acanthicarpa is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Ambrosia

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    taxon/id/Ambrosia acanthicarpa Hooker
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    Ambrosia acanthicarpa Hooker
    Ambrosia acanthicarpa
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 8: Asteraceae, part 3. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Ambrosia acanthicarpa
    franserie lampourde (French)
    burr ragweed (English)
    flat-spine ragweed (English)
    flat-spine burr ragweed (English)
    flat-spine bursage (English)
    annual bursage (English)
    1 reference
    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
    1 reference
    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
    Flowering (Apr–)Jul–Nov.
    10–3000 m
    Leaves opposite (proximal) and alternate;
    petioles 5–15 (–25+) mm;
    blades ± deltate, 15–40 (–85+) × 12–35 (–80+) mm, 1–2-pinnately lobed, bases cuneate, ultimate margins entire or toothed, abaxial faces hispid and strigillose to sericeous, adaxial faces strigillose and glanddotted.
    Pistillate heads clustered, proximal to staminates;
    Staminate heads: peduncles 0.5–2 mm;
    involucres shallowly cupshaped (usually each with 1–5+ black nerves), 3–5 (–7) mm diam., sparsely hirsute or glabrous;
    florets 6–12 (–20+).
    Burs: bodies fusiform to obpyramidal, 3–5 mm, ± hirsutulous or glabrate, spines 8–18+, scattered, stoutly subulate (sometimes basally flattened or navicular), 2–4 (–5) mm, tips straight or uncinate.