Englisch: beggar’s lice, beggartick, blackjack, hairy beggarticks, needle grass, railway beggar-ticks, Spanish needle, sticktight
Portugiesisch: carrapicho, carrapicho-agulha, carrapicho-de-duas-pontas, cuambu, erva-picão, fura-capa, goambu, herbes malingres, macela-do-campo, paconca, picão, picão-das-hortas, picão-do-campo, picão-preto, piolho-de-padre, sirvulaca
Spanisch: acahual, acahual blanco, aceitilla, amor seco, arponcito, cadillo, cadillo de huerta, cadillo de perro, cadillo rocera, chipaca, duarte, flamenquilla, kelem, kiku, maravilla, masiquia, mazote, pacunga, pacunja, papunga, pegarropa, pirca, romerillo, rosilla, saetilla, satuchi, sepé, sirvulaca, té de milpa