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Showing Xanthium commune
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- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
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- Xanthium(gen.)
- commune(sp.)
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Type: "Quebec to N. Y., Kans. Mo and Ariz. Type collected by N.L. Britton at Westport, N. Y."
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APC Comment: Recorded by J.H.Maiden, Agric. Gaz. New South Wales 32: 581 (1921), and listed in synonymy of Xanthium strumarium L. by various authors. The name Xanthium strumarium is now considered to have been misapplied to a complex of several Xanthium species in Australia.