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Catchweed

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Catch´weed`
n.1.(Bot.) See Cleavers.
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Noun1.Catchweed - annual having the stem beset with curved pricklescatchweed - annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers
bedstraw - any of several plants of the genus Galium
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Nettles and grasses reach waist high and tangle with catchweed (flowers turned to burs).
Poor Will's Countryside Almanack for early & middle spring of 2009 by Felker, W.L. / Countryside & Small Stock Journal
They are otherwise known as goose grass, catchweed, catchy monkeys and various other things including, according to one encyclopaedia, "sticky willy".
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Some dock, chickweed and catchweed are growing back in sheltered microclimates.
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