Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants:

Xanthium strumarium L. var. canadense (P. Mill.) Torr. & Gray

Origin: native

Scientific Synonyms: Xanthium acerosum Greene, Xanthium californicum Greene, Xanthium californicum Greene var. rotundifolium Widder, Xanthium campestre Greene, Xanthium canadense P. Mill., Xanthium cavanillesii Schouw, Xanthium cenchroides Millsp. & Sherff, Xanthium commune Britton, Xanthium echinatum Murray, Xanthium glanduliferum Greene, Xanthium italicum Moretti, Xanthium macounii Britton, Xanthium oligacanthum Piper, Xanthium oviforme Wallr., Xanthium pensylvanicum Wallr., Xanthium saccharatum Wallr., Xanthium speciosum Kearney, Xanthium strumarium L. ssp. italicum (Moretti) D. Löve, Xanthium strumarium L. var. canadense (P. Mill.) Torr. & Gray, Xanthium strumarium L. var. oviforme (Wallr.) M.E. Peck, Xanthium strumarium L. var. pensylvanicum (Wallr.) M.E. Peck, Xanthium varians Greene, Zanthium canadense P. Mill.

Common names:

American cocklebur (1899-1912) (62, 72, 131, 158)

Beach clotbur (1907-1913) (5, 72)

Beach cocklebur (1936-1942) (93, 155)

Burweed [Bur-weed] (1923) (156)

Button-bur (1923) (156)

Cadio (1894, NM) (150)

Canadian bur (1900) (158)

Canadian cocklebur [Canada cockleburr] (Present) (50)

Clotbur [Clot-bur] (1894-1923) (5, 150, 156)

Cocklebur (1893-1939) (5, 21, 63, 80, 85, 95, 97, 106, 145, 148, 150)

Common cocklebur [Common cockle-bur] (1911-1936) (93, 95, 156)

Cucklebur [Cuckle bur] (1896, Sulphur Grove OH) (76)

Glandular clotbur [Glandular clot-bur] (1911-1913) (5, 95)

Glandular cocklebur (1936, Neb) (93)

Great clotbur (1913-1937) (5, 97)

Great cocklebur (1936, Neb) (93)

Hedgehog burweed [Hedge-hog-bur-weed] (1900-1912) (62, 158)

Italian cocklebur (1942) (155)

Lesser burdock (1923) (156)

Pennsylvania clotbur (1913-1937) (5, 97)

Sea cocklebur (1900) (158)

Sea cucklebur (1900) (158)

Sheepbur [Sheep-bur] (1923) (156)

Small burdock (1923) (156)

Small cocklebur (1932, SD) (85)