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Common Name: Cleavers/ Goosegrass
Latin Name: Galium Aparine
Location: Oldham, Manchester.
Ultimate height: Up to 1.5m
Located Galium Aparine height: 1m
Leaf Shape: Obovate bristles
Bark: Thin green stems are rough and square
with obovate bristles to aid their scrambling growth through other vegetation.
Fruit/Flowers: Fruit consists of nutlets
with hooked bristles. Flowers are a greenish white colour, with 4 petals
roughly 2mm across which grow in clusters.
Distribution: Common and Widespread
throughout the UK
This specie was found amongst many
other variation of shrub. The site it is located on was previously
home to an industrial mill, resulting in the space being a brown field site.
The boarder in which this particular Galium Aparine was subjected too,
was in fact bordering a desire line created by human occupancy. This
plant, better known as a weed, and those surrounding, had self seeded and are
now part of a natural succession. Its dense shrub-like form assists in a wall
of seclusion as you walk throughout the space, providing a safety barrier
from a 5m drop on the opposite side. Although they
are renowned to radical spreading due to their distribution
tendencies, this specie was one of only a select few in this entire
space.
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