Buffalo Bur, Solanum rostratum

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Buffalo Bur

Solanaceae
Solanum rostratum

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Solanaceae Family

Solanum Genus

Location

Found on a roadside in Utah.

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Solanaceae

Nightshade Family

Solanales

Nightshade Order

Euasterids I

Real Stars Group One

Asteridae

Class of Stars (Daisies)

Core Eudicots

Main, Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots)

Eudicots

Real, Two First-Leaves (Dicots)

Mesangiospermae

Half Capsule Seed Division

Magnolia Division

Seed Plants

Real Land Plants

Multiple Spore Sub-Kingdom

Stomatophytes

Air Pores Sub-Kingdom

Embryophytes

Multicellular Land Plants

Streptobionta

Multicellular Plants

Plantae

Plants

Eukaryota

Cells with a Nucleus

General Information

AKA: Kansas Thistle and Prickly Nightshade.

When mature, the main stem breaks near the ground and the plant rolls like a tumbleweed, widely scattering the 8500 seeds that each plant produces.

Occasionally, plants sold as tomato seedlings have matured into buffalobur.
The name "buffalobur" dates back to the time of settlement of the Great Plains when the plant grew abundantly in the disturbed soil of buffalo wallows.
Buffalo carried the burs great distances in their shaggy coats.

Buffalo Bur
Buffalo Bur - August 13, 2009

Comment: Buffalo Bur, Solanum rostratum

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gardengeek

August 14, 2009

The tomato seed that matures into a buffalobur was always a buffalobur, it just got mixed in because both plants look similar, and the buffalobur has developed a way to get it's seeds widely dispersed. As far as I know, the two species cannot interbreed, so a tomato plant cannot produce buffalobur seeds.

tobolonoble

August 14, 2009

Very interesting. Strange that a tomato seedling may mature in to buffalobur? How does this happen? I did know that the tomato plant is in the nightshade family also, does this have something to do with the how this happens?

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