Cocklebur

The light infantry will be hidden in the switchgrass, and, hopefully, avoiding the cocklebur. ❋ Linda Robertson (2010)

Which brought me to the present: host to a flea circus, stuck to a cocklebur plant, with an unknown intruder watching me from the woods who was packing a butt load of cat magic. ❋ Galenorn, Yasmine (2007)

Among species characteristic of this habitat are Russian thistle, cocklebur, witchgrass, inland Sea Rocket and velvetleaf. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Inculcating and deluding the masses with a multi-billion dollar barrage of agitprop and sophistry potent enough to penetrate the minds of the most adroit thinkers, the moneyed interests behind corporatism and exploitative Capitalism have created a false dichotomy that clings to our collective psyche like a cocklebur deeply embedded in a wool sock. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For Bush, who is known to spend early-morning hours hacking at unwanted mesquite, cocklebur weeds, hanging limbs and underbrush only to go back for more after lunch, it borders on obsession. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It rankled in his mind like a cocklebur, raising question after question. ❋ Leonard, Tina (2001)

And so the man walks around and around again and finally sees the cocklebur. ❋ M.D. Lewis Mebl-Madrona (1997)

I had stepped on some sort of cocklebur; half a dozen vicious caltrops were stuck in my bare sole, blood drops welling from the tiny punctures. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)

Harry had seen it grow in the half-year he'd been on the route, and was guessing when the pomegranates would roll all the way downhill into the cocklebur patch. ❋ Niven, Larry (1977)

Also I am an accountant, an amanuensis, and a cocklebur. ❋ Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 (1954)

TOSSING, L. and DUNBAR, R.E. (1935) Physical and chemical properties of cocklebur (Xanthium commune Britton) oil. ❋ Unknown (1953)

This is contrary to belief that the common cocklebur was introduced into New Mexico. ❋ Unknown (1937)

The desmodium, the bidens, the agrimony and the cocklebur, which stick to your clothes even as late as February, are only using you as a Moses to lead their children to their promised land. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)

In the new form, which is similar in all other respects to the common cocklebur, the burs are more slender and the prickles much less numerous, about 25 to the bur and mostly stouter at the base. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)

It is a variety of the American cocklebur, often called sea-burdock, or the [140] hedgehog-burweed, a stout and common weed of the western states. ❋ Hugo De Vries (1891)

It is particularly partial to the stem of the common cocklebur, (_Zanthium sirumarium_;) and if it would only confine itself to such noxious weeds, it might be considered more of a friend than an enemy. ❋ D. A. Compton (1846)

Ignite also controls Palmer amaranth, woolly cupgrass, velvetleaf, cocklebur, foxtails, ragweeds and waterhemp, along with ALS-resistant and glyphosate-resistant weeds, according to Bayer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She needed an [answer], so she stayed [on him] like a cocklebur. ❋ ALAG (2021)