Sunday, January 21, 2007

stickywilly

this is galium aparine of the family rubiaceae.


this is another spring plant that has been tricked into blooming early this year. according to the USDA site this is a springtime annual, meant to bloom mid spring.

for those of you reading this, like my self, are quite ignorant of the exact definitions of many of the terms in botany and gardening, an annual is a plant that "grow, bloom, set seed and die" in a single growing season. a biannual is a plant that carries this process over two growing seasons.

2 comments:

n8 said...

so whut is going on here, you need to update takauji, or update dr. neill's wikipedia blurb, or something. distract me from partnership tax . . . please

crybaby said...

What an odd name, but it lets you know what the plant does, and the close-up shot helps, too. Odd like "beggar lice" or "cocklebur."