Arctium
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Arctium

burdock

Hierarchical position of the Genus Arctium

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Asteridae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Asteranae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 451. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Asterales Lindl.
pub. 1833
  
   Familia  Asteraceae Dumort.
pub. Comment. Bot.: 55. Nov-Dec 1822.
common name: Sunflowers
  
   Familia  Compositae Giseke
pub. Prael. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 538. Apr 1792, nom. cons.
  
   Genus  Arctium L.
common name: burdock
  

Named members of the Genus Arctium

1
   Species  lappa L.
common name: greater burdock, niu bang zi  (Chinese), domestic burdock, gobo  (Japanese)
  
2
   Species  minus Bernh.
common name: burdock
  
 
3
   Subspecies  nemorosum (Lej. & Court.) Syme
syn. Arctium vulgare
4
   Species  nemorosum Lej. & Court.
syn. Arctium vulgare
5
   Species  tomentosum P. Mill.
common name: woolly burdock
6
   Species  vulgare (Hill) Evans
common name: woodland burdock

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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