Seems there are a million different things labeled as stick tights as it tends to be a general "catch all" term for the crap that we vectors end up dragging around and re-seeding per nature's plans.

What the heck (weed experts help!) is this weed? I grew up calling it beggar's lice, but when I look that up it shows something completely different (tick trefoil).


This is what the internet gives me when I type in Beggar's Lice - various tick trefoils... Definitely NOT what is in the post above.

Hedge parsely (Torilis arvensis)

I grew up calling it beggar's lice as well.

In know you will be shocked that it is an invasive species.

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I am not shocked, but I did not know that. Freaking Japanese kamikaze plants ...it was already on the "kill it with fire" list, but it has just moved up a notch.

Oh, and thank you RBF

Clicked hoping to see hot, sticky girls in tights.

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You have no idea how long it took me to ID that crap.

Kill these things with fire, our dog got into them and looks like a piece of cotton.

Yeah, I'm still dealing with the remnants. Last year I hand pulled twenty 30 gallon trash bags full of them. This year it's only about half that many. Thankfully it has a pretty upright growth habit and is easy to ID. But after you pull them for a few hours you're itchy as hell. and unfortunately if you mow it it doesn't die, it simply forms flowers/seeds very close to the ground.

I have never heard it called anything but beggar's lice.

Sticktights are another thing in my neck of the woods, those are pecans where the husk either is damaged by an insect or freezes stuck to an otherwise fully-formed nut shell.

My backyard is covered around the perimeter. I'm going to get after them by hand, hopefully not 20 trash bags.