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Galium_aparine3_2024-05-26 SW Michigan USA Flowers and developing seeds at the tip of the plant. The flowers are quite small, on this plant about 1.5mm wide when fully open.<br /> <br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/160814/galium_aparine1_2024-05-25_sw_michigan_usa.html" title="Galium_aparine1_2024-05-25 SW Michigan USA"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/11710/160814_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=vTLIzjMUJ6cg7o8rHpEGKP97r%2FE%3D" width="200" height="140" alt="Galium_aparine1_2024-05-25 SW Michigan USA In the fall and winter when wandering near the lake shore in an area where these live, many (too many) of the seeds attach to my clothing with their fishhook barbed hairs and are quite difficult to remove. <br /> <br /> Immature seed:<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/160815/galium_aparine2_2024-05-25_sw_michigan_usa.html<br /> <br /> Flower, looking down at the top of the stalk:<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/160816/galium_aparine3_2024-05-26_sw_michigan_usa.html<br /> <br /> Flower in profile:<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/160836/galium_aparine4_2024-05-26_sw_michigan_usa.html Cleavers,Galium aparine,Geotagged,Spring,United States" /></a></figure> Cleavers,Galium aparine Click/tap to enlarge

Galium_aparine3_2024-05-26 SW Michigan USA

Flowers and developing seeds at the tip of the plant. The flowers are quite small, on this plant about 1.5mm wide when fully open.

Galium_aparine1_2024-05-25 SW Michigan USA In the fall and winter when wandering near the lake shore in an area where these live, many (too many) of the seeds attach to my clothing with their fishhook barbed hairs and are quite difficult to remove. <br /> <br /> Immature seed:<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/160815/galium_aparine2_2024-05-25_sw_michigan_usa.html<br /> <br /> Flower, looking down at the top of the stalk:<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/160816/galium_aparine3_2024-05-26_sw_michigan_usa.html<br /> <br /> Flower in profile:<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/160836/galium_aparine4_2024-05-26_sw_michigan_usa.html Cleavers,Galium aparine,Geotagged,Spring,United States

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  1. View William Bodine's profile
    William Bodine
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    Love the macro. It is a very gelatinous looking flower up close. Posted one year ago
    1. View Jon Reck's profile
      Jon Reck
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      I think the perspective gets crunched together by the stacking. I should do a flower in isolation- it probably won’t look gelatinous. We’ll see. Posted one year ago

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"Galium aparine", with common names including cleavers, clivers, catchweed, robin-run-the-hedge, goosegrass,and sticky willy, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae.

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