Ambrosia acanthicarpa: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Ambrosia
- Species
- Ambrosia acanthicarpa
- Scientific Name
- Ambrosia acanthicarpa
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ambrosia acanthicarpa
Ambrosia acanthicarpa is a North American species of bristly annual plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus Ambrosia are called ragweeds. The species has common names including flatspine bur ragweed, Hooker's bur-ragweed, annual burrweed, annual bur-sage, and western sand-bur. The plant is common across much of the western United States and in the Prairie Provinces of Canada.
This spiny, weedy plant grows in clumps of many erect stems which may reach over a meter in height. Its gray-green stems are covered in a coat of stiff, bristly hairs. The few rough leaves are several centimeters long. The racemes of flowers are more plentiful, with each hairy flower head a few millimeters wide. The spiny, burr-like pistillate heads have pointed, twisting bracts and the staminate heads are rounded. The species is adaptable and grows well in disturbed areas, easily becoming weedy.
...Ambrosia acanthicarpa in languages:
- Chinese
- 刺果豬草
- English
- Annual Bur-sage
- English
- Annual Bursage
- English
- Flatspine Bur Ragweed
- English
- Flatspine Bursage
- French
- franserie lampourde
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ambrosia acanthicarpa
- Ambrosia acuminata
- Ambrosia ambrosioides
- Ambrosia arborescens
- Ambrosia artemisiifolia
- Ambrosia artemisioides
- Ambrosia bidentata
- Ambrosia bryantii
- Ambrosia camphorata
- Ambrosia canescens
- Ambrosia carduacea
- Ambrosia chamissonis
- Ambrosia cheiranthifolia
- Ambrosia chenopodiifolia
- Ambrosia confertiflora
- Ambrosia cordifolia
- Ambrosia cumanensis
- Ambrosia deltoidea
- Ambrosia divaricata
- Ambrosia dumosa
- Ambrosia eriocentra
- Ambrosia flexuosa
- Ambrosia grayi
- Ambrosia hispida
- Ambrosia humi
- Ambrosia ilicifolia
- Ambrosia johnstoniorum
- Ambrosia linearis
- Ambrosia magdalenae
- Ambrosia maritima
- Ambrosia monogyra
- Ambrosia nivea
- Ambrosia pannosa
- Ambrosia peruviana
- Ambrosia polystachya
- Ambrosia porcheri
- Ambrosia psilostachya
- Ambrosia pumila
- Ambrosia salsola
- Ambrosia scabra
- Ambrosia tenuifolia
- Ambrosia tomentosa
- Ambrosia trifida
- Ambrosia velutina
- Ambrosia × helenae
- Ambrosia × intergradiens
- Ambrosia × platyspina
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