OK first off I have to admit I had to spellcheck the word cocklebur. I’ve said it a million times but never had to type it out. I grew up calling them cacaburs. Uh…yeah I grew up calling a lot of things differently. Ambliance ambulance, fruit and cotton-tail fruit cocktail and the list goes on.
Enough with my childhood, let’s get on with it. During a recent hike with the kiddos I looked down and realized we were all covered in cockleburs.
And Kaiser the dog didn’t escape their clutches either. He lodged a bigger one right in his grandpa beard.
I guess I’m not suprised. By the end of summer this should be expected. Everything is drying out and these annoying hitchhikers are excited to travel to new places.
Once these cockleburs were brought to our attention we began to see them everywhere and what their plants looked like. There were several different kinds, extra small to ginormous. My creative son got really excited and started collecting them…”MOM they’re like legos”. He went on to build this killer cocklebur man. 
If any of you are interested he is now selling it on ebay for a mere $100.
Although cockleburs are overall unpleasant I guess they do have some redeeming value. In my book about medicinal plants it says that the leaves of the plant can be used to make tea in order to get rid of diarreah. Now that I think about it my Cacabur pronounciation was right on target!
I found a great site about cockleburs that you can check out if you want more indepth info on this natural velcro.
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Shawna
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Linda says
You are a great story teller Shawna…write that book!
Holly Hunter says
As always, your blog posts bring a smile to my face and usually a laugh as I can relate. I have a terrific picture of my boys up in Flagstaff, AZ a few years ago. I led them out into a field of yellow flowers to do some pictures only to realize that we were covered in small stickers, especially our socks. I told them to pose nicely since we were already out there. The photo is priceless as my youngest (around 5 yrs old at the time) has an angry frown while “the cooperative one” has an angelic smile (fake of course). We will never forget that day and the struggle to clear our socks of all those darned stickers!!!
Nikki Andreasen says
I seriously laughed out loud! You guys are great and if I had an extra $100 that I didn’t have anything else to do with, I would send it your way in exchange for that AWESOME cocklebur guy! C.A. you’re awesome! Thanks for the laughs Shawna!
Lovegra kaufen says
I searched Google for cocklebur and I found your blog 🙂 I like your blog, well done!