Alongside all the beauty of a hike through the woods comes the added hassle of having to remove all those spiky seeds from ...

Locally the sandbur, burdock, cocklebur, beggar's ticks and bedstraw are among the most obvious botanical hitchhikers. The seeds of each plant has their own form of hooks and barbs The hooks or ...

Common burdock (Arctium minus ... moist soil but can survive in a variety of conditions). Its velcro-like seed heads attach easily to clothing and animals, allowing them to be transported great ...

Burdock has large heart-shaped leaves and produces purple flowers in the spring and autumn. Traditional Chinese medicine has long utilized the roots, fruits, leaves, and seeds of the burdock plant.

Some seeds can stick. The idea for Velcro came from a burdock seed, which has little hooks that attach themselves to animal fur. Some seeds can even plant themselves, such as wild oats which drill ...

Burdock is an invasive plant native to Eurasia, brought to North America by seed burrs stuck to animals. This biennial has clusters of round burrs after it flowers during its second year of growth.