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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Arctium minus
 
 
 CLASS:    DICOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    ASTERALES
 FAMILY:   ASTERACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Arctium minus
 AUTHORITY:  (Hill) Bernh.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    COMMON BURDOCK
    SMALLER BURDOCK
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: ARMI12
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
       UPLAND FOREST
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
       FLOODPLAIN FOREST
         MESIC
       FLATWOODS
       THICKETS
     SAVANNA
     CULTURAL
       AGRICULTURAL FIELD
         PASTURELAND
         FIELD DIVISION
       SUCCESSIONAL FIELD
       DEVELOPED LAND
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           ALEXANDER       BOONE           BUREAU          CALHOUN
   CARROLL         CASS            CHAMPAIGN       COLES           COOK
   CRAWFORD        DEKALB          DEWITT          DOUGLAS         DUPAGE
   EDGAR           FAYETTE         FORD            FULTON          GREENE
   GRUNDY          HANCOCK         HENDERSON       IROQUOIS        JACKSON
   JEFFERSON       JERSEY          JO DAVIESS      JOHNSON         KANE
   KANKAKEE        KENDALL         KNOX            LAKE            LASALLE
   LEE             LIVINGSTON      LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY
   MCLEAN          MACON           MACOUPIN        MADISON         MARSHALL
   MASON           MASSAC          MENARD          MONTGOMERY      MORGAN
   MOULTRIE        OGLE            PEORIA          PIATT           PIKE
   POPE            PUTNAM          RANDOLPH        RICHLAND        ROCK ISLAND
   ST. CLAIR       SANGAMON        SCHUYLER        SHELBY          STARK
   STEPHENSON      TAZEWELL        UNION           VERMILION       WARREN
   WILL            WILLIAMSON      WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Dicot-herb
 
 TAXONOMY COMMENTS:
     Occasional white-flowered form pallidum Farw. and lacinate-leaved f. lacinatum
     Clute seen.
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Primary
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Pinnate
    LEAF SHAPE:       Cordate     Sagittate
    INFLORESCENCE:   Head
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete   Regular
    FLOWER COLOR:   Red   Violet   White   Others
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Epigynous
    FRUIT:   Achene
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Introduced-  Europe   Asia
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Common
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 POPULATION STATUS COMMENTS:
     Most Illinois burdocks are of this species.
 
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Forb
     LIFE CYCLE:   Biennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      7         MONTH END-      9
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Roads; wastes, about dwellings; along railroads; weed patches, especially where
     cultivated or abused by livestock; dump heaps, barnyards, bridle paths, and
     other high nitrogen soils; protected pastures, boulders and fences, where
     cattle rub off the clinging sticky burs.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     GROWTH OF SPECIES IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS:  No data entered
 
     HABITAT:   Moist   Dry
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     EDIBLE:  Yes
 
     WILD HERBS:   Medicinal   Culinary-flavor   Culinary-nutrition
 
 HUMAN FACTOR COMMENTS:
     A tasty vegetable, young stems or petioles; pith of young eaten raw or candied;
     roots peeled and boiled in a soup; dried and mixed with coffee.  The root was
     used as a diuretic and alternative ointment for burns and sores.
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 LIVESTOCK COMMENTS:
     Dry burs may lessen value of wool when mixed in; plant serves as foliage.
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:
     WEEDINESS:   Economic
 
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed.  1975.  Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.  494 pp.
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Agricultural Experiment Station.  1981.  Weeds of the North Central States.
     Bulletin 772.  College of Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-
     Champaign, Urbana.  303 pp.
Gleason, H. A.  1952.  The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the
     northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.  3 vols.  The New York
     Botanical Garden, New York.
Fernald, M. L., A. C. Kinsey, and R. C. Rollins.  1958.  Edible wild plants of
     eastern North America.  Harper and Brothers, New York.  452 pp.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Arctium minus
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015