Arctium Linnaeus (Q2974)

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Arctium is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cardueae
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Arctium Linnaeus
Arctium is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Cardueae

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    taxon/id/Arctium Linnaeus
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    Arctium Linnaeus
    Arctium
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    burdock (English)
    Burdock (English)
    clotbur (English)
    bardane (English)
    Eurasia
    n Africa
    widely worldwide
    herbage not spiny.
    Stems erect, openly branched, branches ascending.
    gradually smaller distally;
    blade margins entire or dentate (pinnately lobed or dissected), faces abaxially resin-gland-dotted, adaxially often tomentose.
    Heads discoid, in leafy-bracted racemiform to paniculiform or corymbiform arrays.
    (Peduncles 0 or 1–9 cm.) Involucres spheric to ovoid.
    Phyllaries many in 9–17 series, outer and mid narrowly linear, bases appressed, margins entire, apices stiffly radiating, hooked-spiny tipped, inner linear, ascending or erect, straight-tipped.
    Receptacles ± flat, epaleate, bearing subulate scales.
    Florets (5–) 20–40+;
    corollas pink to ± purple, glabrous or glandular-puberulent, tubes elongate, throats campanulate, lobes narrowly triangular, ± equal;
    anther bases tailed, apical appendages ovate, obtuse to acute;
    Cypselae obovoid, ± compressed, rough or ribbed, glabrous, attachment scars basal;
    pappi falling, of many bristles in 2–4 series.