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Indentification and Look-Alikes: Burdock Key Characteristics Checklist

The document identifies and describes burdock, including its key characteristics, look, and life cycle as a biennial plant. It also lists some plants that burdock could be mistaken for, such as rhubarb, cocklebur, and thistle, and provides ways to distinguish between them.

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Indentification and Look-Alikes: Burdock Key Characteristics Checklist

The document identifies and describes burdock, including its key characteristics, look, and life cycle as a biennial plant. It also lists some plants that burdock could be mistaken for, such as rhubarb, cocklebur, and thistle, and provides ways to distinguish between them.

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Burdock

Indentification and Look-alikes

Identification
Burdock Key Characteristics
Arctium lappa, Arctium minus Checklist

Herbaceous biennial plant

First year plant grows to


roughly 2 feet (60 cm) tall
Plant grows from a single
point, basal rosette
Second year plant produces
flowering stalk
Flowering stalk grows to
roughly 6 feet (2 meters) tall
Leaves quite large, heart-
shaped with wavy edges
Small purple flower clusters
on spiky globe
Mature flowering globes
(burs) turn brown with hooks

Look-alikes
Rhubarb Cocklebur Thistle
Rheum rhabarbarum Xanthium

Bright red stems. White flowers. Elongated flower heads and burs. Prickly leaves. Large purple flower
clusters.

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