Feedback request: Xanthium spinosum (22836)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #292465

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Xanthium spinosum L. ("Spiny Cocklebur")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Xanthium spinosum L. ("Spiny Cocklebur")
Collected by:	Mr James Alfred Wheldon
Collection date:	10/1902
Locality:	Great Britain, VC59 South Lancashire, Linacre, Liverpool, SJ39
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley Mr James Alfred Wheldon
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
notes:	alien on waste ground

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 19^th March 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
22/03/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC59 Linacre, Liverpool. on ballast
22/03/2010	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC59 Linacre, Liverpool

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oldnick wrote

flowering state?

[mossysal]

Can't help with flowering state (is that a small composite 'flower' at the very top?) But I do know Liverpool and have put in the grid ref. Hope that's OK.
The added word 'Ballast' means just that and has crept in as a place name from MAN. I'll ask Tom if they can be edited centrally.

[oldnick]

Thanks! You've given away a clue to your secret identity - or did you just used to watch Z-cars a lot? I looked this species up and the flowers seem very interesting, but have found only one adequate illustration, in Fitter Fitter & Blamey. The top flowers are male and do not seem to look much different, whatever the flowering state.