Catchweed bedstraw

Galium aparine

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Galium aparine, ('aparine' from Greek 'apairo' - “lay hold of” or “seize”) with many common names including cleavers, clivers, "bort", bedstraw, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, stickybud, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willy, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, and grip grass, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae.

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  1. (c) Luis Nunes Alberto, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galium_aparine.jpg
  2. (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galium_aparine01.jpg
  3. (c) Fornax, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galium_aparine_W.jpg
  4. anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galium_aparine_b.jpg
  5. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galium_aparine

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