Nigel Cattlin / Cleavers (Galium aparine) burrs with hooks tha attach to animal fur and clothes for dispersal, close-up. England, UK. July.

Nigel Cattlin / Cleavers (Galium aparine) burrs with hooks tha attach to animal fur and clothes for dispersal, close-up. England, UK. July.

Nigel Cattlin / Cleavers (Galium aparine) burrs with hooks tha attach to animal fur and clothes for dispersal. England, UK. July.

Nigel Cattlin / Cleavers (Galium aparine) seedling with cotyledons and early leaf rosettes, growing as garden weed.

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.

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.

Colin Varndell / Cleavers / Goose grass / Sticky willie (Galium aparine) seeds forming. Dorset, UK August

John Waters / Cleavers (Galium aparine), with few tiny white flowers visible, at woodland's edge, Scotland, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Cleavers (Galium aparine), flowering weeds strangling Wheat (Triticum aestivum) crop, Berkshire, UK. June.

Nigel Cattlin / Small white flowers of arable and garden weed cleavers (Galium aparine) and leaves with hooked hairs which stick to clothing

Nigel Cattlin / Seedling Cleavers / Goosegrass (Galium aparine) annual arable and garden weed with cotyledons and first true whorl

Nigel Cattlin / Seedling Cleavers / Goosegrass (Galium aparine) annual arable and garden weed with cotyledons and first true leaves just forming