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§1 Plant
Arctium lappa L.
vernacular greater burdock — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Arctium
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 175 counties across 25 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 175 counties across 25 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cayuga 36011
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- New York 36061
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Richmond 36085
- Schenectady 36093
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 2 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ARLA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7353729 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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