Walked the dog near a UK reservoir. He did go in the water, so that’s where I assume it got attached to him. Loads of 1cm, almost sunflower seed like clinged onto his fur. Had to be hand removed as they had some sort of pincer looking spikes that held onto him
by Powerful_Finish512
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looks like devils beggartick
Some sort of plant from the genus Bidens- aka beggarticks or sticktights
Fucking beggarticks. Super prolific too. Don’t let them grow
Geeze these are way gnarlier than our Bidens stateside😳
Devils beggartick is a native that my neighbor has all over their yard and I’m constantly beating it back to the fences.
In Latin ‘Bidens’ means two (bi) teeth (dens). Hence the name of this genus, whose seeds have these two little appendages on it that it uses to catch rides to new places.
burrs. Got them running through bushes.
Those are everywhere in Ohio. They are harmless seeds
Walked a dog near a reservoir… wait, say that again.
We had a place near Flagstaff, AZ. The yard was 100% wild. In the fall, when I would walk my little fluffy dog, he would come back with an astonishing variety of burrs stuck in his fur. It always amazed me how many different plants spread their seeds this way.
if it’s a white flower don’t touch it, I got yelled at in the other thread for repeating a stuff you should know podcast saying to rub a small amount of it on your arm to see if your allergic, they acted like I’m trying to kill people here and the picture I commented on wasn’t poisonous anything either
Stick tights, really common around here in indiana.
Should be *Bidens tripartita*, trifid bur-marigold. Native and the most common of all the ones we get.
It’s not very likely to become a pest in your garden because it needs damp areas – stream sides, damp ditches, pond edges, that sort of place.