puncture vine
Tribulus terrestris
Tribulus terrestris is an annual plant in the caltrop family (Zygophyllaceae) widely distributed around the world, that is adapted to grow in dry climate locations in which few other plants can survive.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.653
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1208
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.568
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.63
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.623
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.617
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Plants
王圻, 王思義 · 1607 · p.76
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 11)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.48
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.103
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 64238.