Seed identification

[ploughman1963]

Anyone identify these seeds please - friend asked as they found them in hay

 

[Great In Grass]

Goose Grass, them there sticky things?

 

[ploughman1963]

Many thanks

 

[ploughman1963]

Is that the same as cleavers? Apparently much larger seeds than cleavers

 

[Great In Grass]

Probably is Cleavers more commonly found in a field than the Goose Grass.

Cleavers being a herb people will be sticking in herbal leys next!!!

 

[ploughman1963]

Medicago polymorpha- toothed medick.
thanks

 

[deleted user 837354]

I would have said cleavers as well but I think medick seeds split in half somehow whereas cleavers don't?

 

[Kidds]

Probably is Cleavers more commonly found in a field than the Goose Grass.

Cleavers being a herb people will be sticking in herbal leys next!!!

Since when are cleavers and goosegrass not the same thing. Galium aperine

 

[Bald Rick]

Actually I think you’re all wrong ... it’s the Shropshire mutation

 

[Kevtherev]

Looks very much like cleavers usually found stuck to the wool jumpers of folk that sleep in hedges.

 

[ploughman1963]

Actually I think you’re all wrong ... it’s the Shropshire mutation

Nothing to do with Gods Own County - coastal region down Sarf somewhere

 

[Dirtybootz]

Looks to big for cleavers but hard to get a scale in the picture. They could possibly be burdock seeds.

 

[An Gof]

I don’t think that they are cleavers, the hooks on the seed look too large. Likewise I doubt that they are Burdock.

 

[Bald Rick]

Nothing to do with Gods Own County - coastal region down Sarf somewhere

OK ...... they are the new Kent & home counties mutation.

In truth, they look like the seed of what we call "Pen Caled" (hard head) in Welsh but I'm damned if I can remember what the English is

 

[milkloss]

Medicago polymorpha- toothed medick.
thanks

Tell me medicago polymorpha isn’t the name of a Hooker!

 

[Bald Rick]

OK ...... they are the new Kent & home counties mutation.

In truth, they look like the seed of what we call "Pen Caled" (hard head) in Welsh but I'm damned if I can remember what the English is

That's the plant

and would also occur in grassland so very likely be cropped in hay

 

[arcobob]

Has anyone looked at Thornapple (Datura stramonium? This could be a very serious problem as this is a poisonous member of the nightshade family.

 

[Kidds]

Has anyone looked at Thornapple (Datura stramonium? This could be a very serious problem as this is a poisonous member of the nightshade family.

The seeds don't look like that though, seed pods do a bit but they are golf ball size

 

[Y Fan Wen]

OK ...... they are the new Kent & home counties mutation.

In truth, they look like the seed of what we call "Pen Caled" (hard head) in Welsh but I'm damned if I can remember what the English is

Rib leaf plantain?

 

[Bald Rick]

Rib leaf plantain?

No but I see where you're coming from.

Plant I am thinking of it quite tall - about 1-2 ft and branched with purple flowers that leave behind the pen caled
See pic above