Taxon: Ambrosia acanthicarpa Hook.

Common names:

• annual bur-sage   (Source: Intermt F ) – English
  
• Hooker's bur ragweed   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• sandbur   (Source: Websters Dict [as Franseria acanthicarpa]) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Ambrosia acanthicarpa from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [s.], Manitoba [s.], Saskatchewan [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Minnesota [e.]

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Payne, W. W. 1964. A re-evaluation of the genus Ambrosia (Compositae). J. Arnold Arbor. 45:409.
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= Franseria acanthicarpa].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ambrosia acanthicarpa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ambrosia acanthicarpa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ambrosia acanthicarpa.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Franseria acanthicarpa (Hook.) Coville
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Ambrosia acanthicarpa Hook.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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