Index / Search / Xanthium strumarium var. glabratum

§1 Plant

Xanthium strumarium L. var. glabratum (DC.) Cronquist

vernacular rough cocklebur — variety · Asteraceae


USDA
XASTG
GBIF
3089178 syn.
Rank
variety
rough cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium var. glabratum)
Platephotograph · Troos van der MerweCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Xanthium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 416 counties across 28 states/territories
Legend Native · 416 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 416 counties across 28 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 4 N ▾
California view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 60 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 43 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 68 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 10 N ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 75 N ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 43 N ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 37 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 2 N ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/XASTG ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3089178 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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