Species of flowering plant
Xanthium orientale 
 
 
 
Scientific classification   
 
Kingdom:
 
Plantae 
 
Clade :
 
Tracheophytes 
 
Clade :
 
Angiosperms 
 
Clade :
 
Eudicots 
 
Clade :
 
Asterids 
 
Order:
 
Asterales 
 
Family:
 
Asteraceae 
 
Tribe:
 
Heliantheae 
 
Genus:
 
Xanthium  
 
Species:
 
X. orientale 
 
Binomial name 
 
Xanthium orientale  
 
Synonyms [ 1]  
 
Xanthium acerosum  Greene  
Xanthium acutilobum  Millsp. & Sherff  
Xanthium acutum  Greene  
Xanthium affine  Greene  
Xanthium albinum  (Widder) Scholz & Sukopp  
Xanthium americanum  Walter  
Xanthium aridum  H.St.John  
Xanthium australe  Millsp. & Sherff  
Xanthium barcinonense  Sennen  
Xanthium brevirostre  Hochst. ex A.Rich.  
Xanthium brevirostre  Wallr.  
Xanthium bubalocarpon  Bush  
Xanthium californicum  Greene  
Xanthium calvum  Millsp. & Sherff  
Xanthium campestre  Greene  
Xanthium canadense  Mill.  
Xanthium cavanillesii  Schouw  
Xanthium cenchroides  Millsp. & Sherff  
Xanthium chinense  var. globuliforme  C.Shull  
Xanthium chsei  Fernald  
Xanthium cloessplateaum  D.Z.Ma  
Xanthium commune  Britton  
Xanthium cordifolium  Stokes  
Xanthium crassifolium  Millsp. & Sherff  
Xanthium cuneatum  Moench  
Xanthium curvescens  Millsp. & Sherff  
Xanthium discolor  Wallr.  
Xanthium echinatum  Murray  
Xanthium fuscescens  Jord. & Fourr.  
Xanthium glabratum  Britton  
Xanthium glanduliferum  Greene  
Xanthium hispanicum  Sennen  
Xanthium homothalamum  Spreng.  
Xanthium italicum  Moretti  
Xanthium leptocarpum  Millsp. & Sherff  
Xanthium longirostre  Wallr.  
Xanthium macounii  Britton  
Xanthium macrocarpum  var. italicum  (Moretti) Nyman  
Xanthium maculatum  Raf.  
Xanthium monoicum  Gilib.  
Xanthium nigri  Ces., Pass. & Gibelli  
Xanthium oligacanthum  Piper  
Xanthium oviforme  Wallr.  
Xanthium palustre  Greene  
Xanthium pensylvanicum  Wallr.  
Xanthium pungens  var. denudatum  Widder  
Xanthium riparium  Itzigs. & Hertzsch  
Xanthium riparium  Lasch  
Xanthium ripicola  Holub  
Xanthium roxburghii  Wallr.  
Xanthium saccharatum  Wallr.  
Xanthium silphiifolium  Greene  
Xanthium speciosum  Kearney  
Xanthium sphaerocephalum  Salzm. ex Ball  
Xanthium strumarium  var. canadense  (Mill.) Torr. & A.Gray  
Xanthium strumarium  var. echinatum  (Murray) A.Gray  
Xanthium strumarium  subsp. italicum  (Moretti) D.Löve  
Xanthium strumarium  f. purpurascens  Priszter  
Xanthium strumarium  var. wootonii  (Cockerell) W.C.Martin & C.R.Hutchins  
Xanthium varians  Greene  
Xanthium wootonii  Cockerell  
  
 
  
Xanthium orientale   is a species of annual plant of the daisy family Asteraceae .[ 1]  
Use by Native Americans [ edit ]  
The Zuni people  use the plant for multiple purposes. The chewed seeds are rubbed onto the body before the cactus ceremony to protect it from spines. A compound poultice  of seeds is applied to wounds or used to remove splinters.[ 2]   The seeds are also ground, mixed with cornmeal, made into cakes, and steamed for food.[ 4]  
^ a   b   "Xanthium orientale L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" . Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 2022-07-01  . 
 
^   Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (1915). "Ethnobotany of the Zuni Indians". SI-BAE Annual Report . 30 : 62– 63.  
 
^   Castetter, Edward F. (1935). "Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food". University of New Mexico Bulletin . 4  (1): 1– 44, 54.