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Arctium lappa
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<p><i>Arctium lappa</i>, commonly called greater burdock, gobō (牛蒡/ゴボウ), edible burdock, lappa, beggar's buttons, thorny burr, or happy major is a <a href="/facts/Eurasia/KlLI9GDM">Eurasian</a> species of plants in the family <a href="/facts/Asteraceae/bouc6v8C">Asteraceae</a>, cultivated in gardens for its root used as a <a href="/facts/Vegetable/j3AlDG64">vegetable</a>. It has become an invasive weed of high-nitrogen soils in <a href="/facts/North_America/djNjCQIl">North America</a>, <a href="/facts/Australia/qLHpbppq">Australia</a>, and other regions. </p>