Common burdock
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.8 m
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Lesser burdock
Formerly Arcion minus, Arctium batavum, Arctium conglomeratum, Arctium degenii, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BiennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, NW. Africa, Europe to AfghanistanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.8 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- French
- petite bardane
- Asturian
- cazapetu menor
- Czech
- lopuch menší
- German
- Kleine Klette
- Finnish
- pikkutakiainen
- Dutch
- gewone klit, Gewone klit
- Slovenian
- mali repinec
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Arctium minus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.