Asteraceae
Common cockleburr
Xanthium orientale
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Xanthium
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Common names
By language (5)
- Chinese
- 东方苍耳
- Dutch
- Oeverstekelnoot
- English
- Common cockleburr, Large cockleburr, Rough cockleburr
- Finnish
- Tummasappiruoho
- German
- Artengruppe Großfrüchtige Spitzklette
Synonyms
- Xanthium canadense Mill.
- Xanthium macrocarpum DC.
- Xanthium riparium Itzigs. & Hertsch
Flowers
- In flower
- June to September (from 53 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Evgenij Samarin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Piotr Panek, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FruitPhoto: Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Oceancetaceen - Alice Chodura, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Tom Scavo, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Marc-Aurèle Vallée, CC0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Oleksandr Shynder, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.