Common Burdock

Scientific Name:   Arctium minus


Native to Europe. Outer bracts end in hooks similar to Velcro. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Common Burdock


Genus species: Arctium minus
Common Name: Common Burdock
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Pink/Red
Identified by:M. Becus
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