It can be an aggressive weed, quickly covering and smothering other plants. The plant’s hooked hairs allow it to cling to clothing, fur, and other surfaces, which helps in seed dispersal. So it’s …

Galium aparine is a distinctive herbaceous annual weed with a number of common names including cleavers, bedstraw, catchweed bedstraw, grip grass, stickywilly, and others. This fast …

Sep 3, 2013 · Luckily, sticky willy weeds have fairly shallow roots. Perhaps best known as Sticky Willy, Galium aparine – USDA growing zones 3 to 7 – is an annual plant, largely considered to …

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. Galium …

Galium is derived from the Greek word for ‘milk’ and aparine means 'clinging' or 'seizing'. It can be found in coniferous forests, deciduous woodlands, meadows, prairies, flood plains, disturbed …

Apr 25, 2022 · Galium aparine is an annual weed that has a weak-stemmed, creeping habit. The stems—boasting whorled leaves and tiny white flowers that bloom in spring—can grow from …

Mar 17, 2025 · Galium aparine is an easily identifiable, edible, annual, and native weed of Pennsylvania. This weed germinates in the cooler temperatures of early to late spring and …

Cleavers (Galium aparine) is a scrambling or climbing annual herb with weak, multi-branched, four-angled course stems, growing up to 1.5 m long that are covered by small backward …

Jun 22, 2024 · This plant spreads only by seeds, but a related species (northern bedstraw, Galium boreale) is a perennial with a spreading root system. SPECIAL INFORMATION: The clinging …

Oct 5, 2017 · Cleavers is an annual weed that goes by many names including scratch-grass, goosegrass, stickywilly, bedstraw, and catchweed. It is in the bedstraw family, Rubiaceae , a …