“…(Kamboj and Saluja, 2010). In addition to being toxic to man and animals, cocklebur was reported to possess interesting biological or pharmacological activities including antitrypanosomal (Talakal et al, 1995), anticancer (Ramirez-Erasa et al, 2007), anti-inflammatory (Han et al, 2007) and other activities (Akarte et al, 2009;Yoon et al, 2008). X. strumarium is an invasive widely spreading weed in Sudan particularly in the irrigated agricultural schemes in central Sudan.…”