And the miniscule seeds are covered with itty bitty soft barbs. Cleavers does flower, producing tiny white blooms. The bright green plant puts out long straggly stems with spaced out whorls of six to eight leaves. I used to pick these sticktights out of my petsвЂ™ fur after a romp through nearby fields.Д¬leavers is a wild edible that is easy to identify. ThatвЂ™s a pretty cool way to propagate! After the plant flowers it produces tiny sticky seeds as well, that create a nuisance for dogs or cats that brush against them. These sticky hairs enable the plant to cling to clothes or fur that it comes in contact with. The main identifying characteristic of cleavers are the fine sticky hairs that cover the plant. ItвЂ™s also known by a variety of descriptive names such as grip grass, stickyweed, catchweed, velco plant, everlasting friendship and sticky willies. ThatвЂ™s not what I called it though, as a child. While it has a fancy Latin name, Galium aparine,В this prolific plant is more commonly known as cleavers. Cleavers thrives especially well in cultivated gardens, IвЂ™ve discovered. Look for it growing along rivers, sidewalks, fences and tree stumps or in great clumps in meadows and fields. Today it flourishes around the world, including Canada and much of the United States.ДЄnd when I say flourish, I mean that it grows everywhere, appearing in early spring. IвЂ™ll bet you know it too!Д¬leavers originated in Europe, covering much of the extended continent, from England to Siberia. In fact, IвЂ™ve been familiar with cleavers since my childhood. It wasnвЂ™t until I studied foraging for wild edibles last fall that I realized I pull this вЂњweedвЂќ out of my garden every spring, by the handfuls. Oddly enough, I even dreamed once about gathering the plant. IвЂ™ve read about the medicinal herb cleavers, that many consider a weed. This afternoon, for tea time, I sipped on a refreshing cleavers cold water infusion. In the spirit of foraging, I gathered a wild edible yesterday from my backyard and allowed it to steep overnight in water. Please read my Disclosure Policy for details. Emails are serviced by Constant Contact Search for: Archives You can revoke your consent to receive emails at any time by using the SafeUnsubscribeВ® link, found at the bottom of every email. By submitting this form, you are consenting to receive marketing emails from: Journey With Healthy Me, 2014 Pennsylvania, Joplin, MO, 64804.

Cold water infuse