Wednesday, August 12, 2009

August 6, burs and cones

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When your dog walks through these, you are glad she's a corgi (or a beagle). The few that stick will swipe off with one pass of your hand. If she's a shepherd/husky, though, her wretchedly tangled pants can glue her legs together to a degree that requires an hour of fussing to fix.

Burdock.

I believe this was the inspiration for velcro. Click embiggen, if you'd like a close up of all those hooks........





This would be why they call them "cone"flowers..........



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