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Prickly plants? What are they called?

by Guest62937  |  earlier

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Okay, so...I'm trying to figure out what they're called, but they're small little circular prickly plants that fall off and stick to your clothes and they're usually a yellowish, whiteish color, does anyone know what they're called?

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  1. cactus

    or

    stickers


  2. The plant is called burdock, the seeds are grown in the prickely ball that you are talking about..when ripe and dry the little balls hook on to anything and everything that touches them They are very annoying and yet they do hold a medicinal quality in the herbal medicine field.

  3. its a catus  

  4. Where I'm from, we call the things that stick to you burrs.

  5. its some type of weed, im not sure of the name tho  

  6. These?

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2098/2413...

    They're burrs

  7. A cactus.

  8. prickers?

    or pricklers.

    i live in southwest florida and thats what we call them..

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  9. a thorn?

    lol, idk!

  10. Burrs, I believe.

  11. Jumping cholla,

    ick

  12. sounds like a cactaus

  13. BRAMBLE

  14. I hate those things!

  15. idk what theyre called but I HATE THEM

  16. well where i live they are called stickers

  17. Sand burrs.

    They look like tan colored peas with pickers all over them.

    Here's a pic still attached to their stems

    http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...

    Sticky things.

  18. thorns

  19. don't know srry,         it's sounds annoying, maybe a burr    I think

  20. they sound cool

  21. burs...or a cactus?

  22. cuckleberies  which was where the idea of velcro came from

  23. I believe you could be talking about dandelions, which fall off very easily when you shake them. They're kind of soft, but the ends of them are prickly, and they are a whitish color.

  24. sorry, idk!

  25. oo darnit!

    all i know is that there what started velcro!

  26. I think they are called burs.

  27. they may be cactus

  28. Cactus

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