Colin Varndell / Cleavers / Goose grass (Galium aparine) in flower, Dorset, England, UK, June
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Nigel Cattlin / Cleavers (Galium aparine) burrs with hooks tha attach to animal fur and clothes for dispersal, close-up. England, UK. July.
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Nigel Cattlin / Cleavers (Galium aparine) burrs with hooks tha attach to animal fur and clothes for dispersal, close-up. England, UK. July.
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Nigel Cattlin / Cleavers (Galium aparine) burrs with hooks tha attach to animal fur and clothes for dispersal. England, UK. July.
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Nigel Cattlin / Cleavers (Galium aparine) seedling with cotyledons and early leaf rosettes, growing as garden weed.
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Nick Upton / Male Common European Crane fly / Daddy long legs (Tipula paludosa) recently emerged and resting on Goose grass / Cleavers (Galium aparine) by a pond, Suffolk, UK, May.
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Nick Upton / Bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa) in a stand of its food plant Goose grass / Cleavers (Galium aparine) in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May.
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Colin Varndell / Cleavers / Goose grass / Sticky willie (Galium aparine) seeds forming. Dorset, UK August
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Albert Lleal / Sticky-willy (Galium aparine) fruits with hooked spines were inspiration for invention of Velcro
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Nick Upton / Larvae of Bloody-nosed beetle (Timarcha tenebricosa) about to pupate on its food plant Goose grass / Cleavers (Galium aparine) on fringe of chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May.
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Alex Hyde / Goose Grass (Galium aparine) close up of fruits which are covered in hooks that become lodged in the fur of animals, aiding seed dispersal. Focus stacked image. UK.
