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Common Cocklebur (Xanthium stumarium)
Common cocklebur is a large-seeded annual.
If you get it, you better get rid of it or you are in deep trouble.
Seed capsules (left) contain two seeds with different
dormancy characteristics. This is an example of somatic polymorphism: the
same plant produces seed with different characteristics.
Spotted stem and distinctive leaf shape.
Red stems, light green flowering capsules,
large leaves.
Same.
Light green flowering, barbed, capsules.
Seedling
Another seedling
Yet more, another seedling.
An outline of a seedling.
Still yet another outline of a seedling.
