Cockspur is an annual herb that blooms in summer and fall. It is called cocklebur because of its cocklebur shape. It is native to Africa, tropical America and India. It likes sunshine, and hot and humid, and can I can't stand frost. It is widely distributed in Anhui, Beijing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong and Guangxi in China.

Cocklebur Properties

Cocklebur is a plant of the genus Cocklebur in the Amaranthaceae family. It needs bright light but is also shade tolerant. It prefers a warm, dry climate and is afraid of drought and flooding. It does not require much soil and can be grown in general soil fields.

What does cocklebur look like

Shape

:Cocklebur grows upright to a height of 30-80 cm. the whole plant is stout and hairless with few branches. Its upper part is flat, green or red in color and ribbed.

Leaves

:Cockscomb has simple alternate leaves, stalked, tapering or long pointed at the tip, narrowing into a stalk at the base, entire, many flowered from the middle down. Bracts, bracteoles and perianth segments dry, utricles ellipsoid, cap dehiscent at maturity, enclosed in persistent perianth.

Color

:The cocklebur is mostly red. It has kidney-shaped, black seeds with a shiny surface.

Cocklebur Role and Value

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Ornamental Value

:Cocklebur has many varieties, there are tall, medium and short three kinds of strains; the shape of cocklebur, torch, pom-pom, feather, fan-shaped and so on. There are large red, orange, dark red, purple, white, red and yellow mixed colors. The leaves are scarlet, emerald green, yellow-green, red-green, etc., beautiful. 2,

Medicinal value

:Cockscomb has the effect of cooling the blood and stopping bleeding, often used in the treatment of hemorrhoidal bleeding, red and white dysentery, vomiting blood, hemorrhage, hematemesis, hematochezia, red and white leucorrhagia, women's collapse and so on.