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Arctium tomentosum
Also called Hairy Burdock, Wooly Burdock, Cotton Burdock
Arctium tomentosum, commonly known as the woolly burdock or downy burdock, is a species of burdock belonging to the family Asteraceae.
Arctium tomentosum is native to Eurasia from Spain to Xinjiang Province in western China. It is also naturalized in other parts of the world such as North America.
Greater burdock · Lesser burdock · Wood Burdock · Arctium nidulans · Burdock
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Arctium tomentosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
