Cleavers Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Cleavers (Galium aparine), also called goosegrass, stickywilly, or catchweed bedstraw, is a sprawling annual of the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia and now common in hedgerows, gardens, and field margins across North America. Its weak, square stems scramble 1 to 1.5 meters over other plants, and every surface is covered with tiny hooked bristles that make the whole plant cling to clothing and fur. The narrow leaves grow in whorls of six to eight, the flowers are minute, white, and four-petaled, and the fruits are paired, bristly, grey-green burrs. Fresh, it tastes green and faintly of cucumber. We extract the dried above-ground parts.