Index / Search / Xanthium strumarium var. canadense
§1 Plant — variety · Asteraceae
Xanthium strumarium L. var. canadense (Mill.) Torr. & A. Gray
vernacular Canada cocklebur
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Xanthium
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 34 of 56 Montana counties.
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Dawson 30021
- Fergus 30027
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Golden Valley 30037
- Hill 30041
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- McCone 30055
- Mineral 30061
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Valley 30105
- Wibaux 30109
- Yellowstone 30111
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/XASTC ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3089146 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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