Cleavers

Indentification and Look-alikes

Identification
Cleavers Key Characteristics
Galium Aparine Checklist

Herbaceous annual

Plants straggly, growing over

on to other plants
Square stems with obvious
corners
Small hooked hairs on leaves
and stem cling to everything
6-8 leaves grow in each
whorl from the stem
Eack leaf is narrow and
linear
Tiny white star-shaped
flowers
Tiny two-parted seeds with
hooked hairs, burrs

Look-alike
Sweet Woodruff
Galium odoratum

Smooth laves with no clinging hairs.

Plant is perennial.

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