From burdock roots, whose clinging burrs (“beggar buttons”) annoy rural promenaders, catch in hunting dogs’ tails, John Christian Krantz Jr., 31, director of pharmaceutical research for ...

it is said that the fae would ride colts around at night and entertain themselves by tangling their mains with burdock burrs. It is also a common children’s game to toss burdock burrs at friends, and ...

Arctium lappa, commonly called greater burdock, gobō, edible burdock, lappa, beggar's buttons, thorny burr, or happy major is a Eurasian species of plants in the Aster family, cultivated in ...