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Texas bullnettle (Cnidoscolus texanus), Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado Co., TX, USA; 15 May 2013. It is a perennial plant with erect or sprawling branching stems growing from thick root stock, up to 40 inches long and 8 inches thick. It has milky latex and stiff prickly glandular-based, stinging hairs.
Sticker grass is a common name which may refer to bur-producing plants including: Various species of genus Cenchrus; Various species of genus Soliva; Tribulus terrestris
Thumbtack-like Tribulus terrestris burs are a hazard to bare feet and bicycle tires.. After the flower blooms, a fruit develops that easily falls apart into five burs. [3] The burs are hard and bear two to four sharp spines, [3] 10 mm (0.39 in) long and 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) broad point-to-point.
Numerous non-native plants have been introduced to Texas in the United States and many of them have become invasive species. The following is a list of some non-native invasive plant species established in Texas. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Soliva sessilis, one of up to nine species of the genus Soliva, is a low-growing herbaceous annual plant.Its common names include field burrweed, [2] Onehunga-weed, [3] lawn burrweed, lawnweed, jo-jo weed [4] and common soliva.
Galium aparine is known by a variety of common names in English. They include ' 'sweetheart', 'hitchhikers, cleavers, [2] clivers, bedstraw, (small) goosegrass (not to be confused with other plants known as goosegrass), [2] catchweed, [2] stickyweed, sticky bob, [3] stickybud, stickyback, sticky molly, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willy, [2] [4] sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, grip ...
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Solanum rostratum is a species of nightshade (genus Solanum) that is native to the United States and northern and central Mexico. [2] Common names include buffalobur nightshade, [3] buffalo-bur, [4] spiny nightshade, Colorado bur, Kansas thistle, bad woman, Mexican thistle, and Texas thistle.