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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Arctium

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.