Taxon: Arctium lappa L.

Common names:

• beggar's-buttons   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 12(2)) – English
  
• burdock   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• edible burdock   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. lappa var. edule]) – English
  
• great burdock   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• greater burdock   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• lappa   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ) – English
  
• niu bang   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• bardane comestible   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• glouteron   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• grande bardane   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• oreille de géant   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 12(2)) – French
  
• eßbare Klettenwurzel   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• große Klette   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• japanische Klettenwurzel   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• gobo   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 12(2)) – Indonesian
  
• gobō   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• ueong   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:78.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• bardana-maior   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• bardana   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• lampazo mayor   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• lapa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• stor kardborre   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Med Pl China, as Arctium majus)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Arctium lappa from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Nepal; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia [s.e.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii

References:

• Australia's Virtual Herbarium (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Bisset, N. G., ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Duistermaat, H. 1996. Monograph of Arctium L. (Asteraceae). Generic delimitation (including Cousinia Cass. p.p.), revision of the species, pollen morphology, and hybrids. Gorteria suppl. 3:75.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hegi, G. et al. 1987. Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa. ed. 1:1906-1931; ed. 2:1936-68; ed. 3:1966- 6(4):827.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:78.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• Radford, A. E. et al., eds. 1980–. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Valkenburg, J. L. C. H. van & N. Bunyapraphatsara, eds. 2001. Medicinal and poisonous plants 2. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(2):78–82.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Arctium lappa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Arctium lappa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Arctium lappa.

Synonyms:

• (=) Arctium edule Beger
  
• (≡) Arctium majus Bernh.
  
• (=) "Lappa edulis Siebold ex Miq., nom. inval."
  
• (=) Lappa major Gaertn.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Lappa officinalis All.
  

Check other web resources for Arctium lappa L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Images:

• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images 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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