| Author | (Hill) Bernhardi | |
| Distribution | In the Mountains and Piedmont only. First collected in 1841 by Ferdinand Rugel near Asheville, Buncombe County.
Native of Eurasia; in N.A. throughout the U.S. and southern Canada. | |
| Abundance | Fairly common to common in the Mountains, and infrequent to fairly common in the Piedmont. | |
| Habitat | Fields, pastures, roadsides, waste places, trailsides, vacant lots, barnyards. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting June-October. | |
| Identification | Burdocks (Arctium spp.) are thistle-like plants, at least with the inflorescences -- numerous purple to rose-colored flowers, all with disk corollas only, and usually spiny bracts. Lesser Burdock differs from our other 2 Arctium species in its very short stalks to the heads (vs. long); thus the whole plant looks "squatty" in comparison to the others, which have the flowers raised well above the foliage. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | UPL link |
| USACE-emp | FACU link |
