Species of flowering plant
Xanthium orientale Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade : Tracheophytes Clade : Angiosperms Clade : Eudicots Clade : Asterids Order: Asterales Family: Asteraceae Genus: Xanthium Species: X. orientale
Binomial name Xanthium orientale Synonyms [ 1] Xanthium acerosum Greene Xanthium acutilobum Millsp. & Sherff Xanthium acutum Greene Xanthium affine Greene Xanthium albinum (Widder) Scholz & Sukopp Xanthium americanum Walter Xanthium aridum H.St.John Xanthium australe Millsp. & Sherff Xanthium barcinonense Sennen Xanthium brevirostre Hochst. ex A.Rich. Xanthium brevirostre Wallr. Xanthium bubalocarpon Bush Xanthium californicum Greene Xanthium calvum Millsp. & Sherff Xanthium campestre Greene Xanthium canadense Mill. Xanthium cavanillesii Schouw Xanthium cenchroides Millsp. & Sherff Xanthium chinense var. globuliforme C.Shull Xanthium chsei Fernald Xanthium cloessplateaum D.Z.Ma Xanthium commune Britton Xanthium cordifolium Stokes Xanthium crassifolium Millsp. & Sherff Xanthium cuneatum Moench Xanthium curvescens Millsp. & Sherff Xanthium discolor Wallr. Xanthium echinatum Murray Xanthium fuscescens Jord. & Fourr. Xanthium glabratum Britton Xanthium glanduliferum Greene Xanthium hispanicum Sennen Xanthium homothalamum Spreng. Xanthium italicum Moretti Xanthium leptocarpum Millsp. & Sherff Xanthium longirostre Wallr. Xanthium macounii Britton Xanthium macrocarpum var. italicum (Moretti) Nyman Xanthium maculatum Raf. Xanthium monoicum Gilib. Xanthium nigri Ces., Pass. & Gibelli Xanthium oligacanthum Piper Xanthium oviforme Wallr. Xanthium palustre Greene Xanthium pensylvanicum Wallr. Xanthium pungens var. denudatum Widder Xanthium riparium Itzigs. & Hertzsch Xanthium riparium Lasch Xanthium ripicola Holub Xanthium roxburghii Wallr. Xanthium saccharatum Wallr. Xanthium silphiifolium Greene Xanthium speciosum Kearney Xanthium sphaerocephalum Salzm. ex Ball Xanthium strumarium var. canadense (Mill.) Torr. & A.Gray Xanthium strumarium var. echinatum (Murray) A.Gray Xanthium strumarium subsp. italicum (Moretti) D.Löve Xanthium strumarium f. purpurascens Priszter Xanthium strumarium var. wootonii (Cockerell) W.C.Martin & C.R.Hutchins Xanthium varians Greene Xanthium wootonii Cockerell
Xanthium orientale Asteraceae .[ 1]
Use by Native Americans [ edit ] The Zuni people use the plant for multiple purposes. The chewed seeds are rubbed onto the body before the cactus ceremony to protect it from spines. A compound poultice of seeds is applied to wounds or used to remove splinters.[ 2] [ 4]
^ a b "Xanthium orientale L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" . Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 2022-07-01 .^ Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). "Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians". SI-BAE Annual Report . 30 : 62–63. ^ Castetter, Edward F. (1935). "Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food". University of New Mexico Bulletin . 4 (1): 1–44, 54.
