1. Plant burrs / hitchhiker seeds 🌱 (MOST LIKELY)
These are tiny seed pods designed by nature to cling to fabric, fur, and socks.
Beggar’s lice / sticktight seeds
Tick trefoil
Cleavers (aka “sticky weed”)
Foxtail grass seeds
Clues it’s this:
Dozens at once
Stuck more to fabric than skin
Show up after brushing past grass, trails, weeds
Feel annoying but harmless
Plants basically use you as an Uber.
2. Grass awns / seed spikes 🌾
These look like:
Little needles
Barbed slivers
Hair-thin spikes
Why they’re sneaky:
They fall off plants easily and embed fast — you don’t notice until you stop walking.
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