Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Sticky Jack
Came in from weeding in the garden with bits of goosegrass Galium aparine stuck to my clothes. We used to call it sticky Jack when we were kids, and lobbed handfuls of the stuff at each other on the way home from school. Its the covering of tiny hooked hairs all over the plant that act like Velco, fixing it to fabrics. The hairs on the stem are shortish and curved, but those on the leaves are like fish hooks - when you look at them under the microscope.
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