Filaree (Erodium )

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helluva weed, grows everywhere, hard to kill, all the cracks in the asphalt at the flea are green, 95% of it being filaree.
Walked on, driven over, all the abuses and indignities to plant life you can think of, and the stuff thrives. It even manages a little payback sometimes when it fruits and those long curly stickers get in your socks and burrow into your skin.

or as UC Davis says:The fruit is long and needlelike. At maturity the fruit separates into five parts, each having a tail that coils spirally as the seed matures and dries.
It is quite common and widespread in
California,apparently naturalized from the Mediterranean area

Red Stem Filagree seems to be what I have around here

Filaree in the BackYard

the chickens won't even eat it

well, thats not quite accurate, they are more than happy to munch it down while it's still a seedling.

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