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Burweed, common cockle bur |
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| Halbi Name | Gokharu lata |
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| Vernacular name | Gokharu, Adasisi | |
| Scientific name | Xanthium strumarium Linn. | |
| Family | Asteraceae | |
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Annual herb, stem short, stout, rough with short hairs. | |
| Leaves | Many, broadly triangulate-ovate or suborbicular, 3-lobbed, hairy on both sides, irregularly inciso-serrate. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | Heads in terminal and axillary racemes, barren heads many at top, fertile head fewat axis. |   |
| Fruit/ seed | Ovoid, 1.6 cm long with 2-erect beaks, thickly clothed prickles, hard and tough. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Roadside, sometimes in field | |
| Flowering and fruiting | November to June | |
| Associated with | Road side flora | |
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