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What is this?

InTheMoorlandsInTheMoorlands Posts: 161
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Just been trimming a hedge and noticed this.  It is quite sticky both to skin and clothes.  I tried searching on Google images but came up with many different answers:

Is it anything to be worried about?

At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines.  Clay soil.  

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Cleavers - or Sticky Willie as I prefer to call it :)

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Pull it up as much as possible otherwise the seeds will go all over the place...mostly on you who then carry them to other parts of the garden.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Another name is Goosegrass … traditionally fed to geese 😊 
    An annoying ‘weed’ but easy enough to spot and pull up. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • InTheMoorlandsInTheMoorlands Posts: 161
    Thanks everyone - all gone now
    At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines.  Clay soil.  
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