Galium aparine, Cleavers - Seeds - plants - dried herbs

Common names: Cleavers, Grip grass, Clivers, Goosegrass, Catchweed, Stickyweed, Robin-run-the-hedge, Sticky willy, Sticky willow, Velcro weed

Botanical name & synonyms: Galium aparine, Aparine hispida, Aparine vulgaris, Asterophyllum aparine, Crucianella purpurea, Galion aparinum, Galium adhaerens, Galium agreste, Galium australe, Galium borbonicum var. makianum, Galium charoides, Galium chilense, Galium chonosense, Galium hispidum, Galium lappaceum, Galium larecajense, Galium oliganthum, Galium pseudoaparine, Galium scaberrimum, Galium segetum, Galium spurium var. echinospermum, Galium tenerrimum, Galium uncinatum, Rubia aparine

Family: Coffee, madder, bedstraw (Rubiaceae)

• native to Eurasia, Northwest Africa
  

• annual
  

• 60 to 200cm
  

• flower VI to X
  

• plant community: waste ground, ruderal
  

• medicinal & culinary herb
  

• cold germinate
  

• weight of 1000 seeds = 10 gram