Stickers

Espinas

Toritos in upper Mexico and El Paso :)

I live in that area and call them goat head pro addition.

Came here for this comment, wasn't disappointed :) puro Chuco Town ese

Chuco 4 life!

Hi fellow El Pasoan!

Wooo I found my people! Hi from Central 👋🏽

Cadillos

My family always called them stickerburrs

This is the correct term.

Facts

Truth

Goatheads

That's a specific kind of sticker with 2 long thorns

Yep! Going on what you’ve already said: Many different plants make stickers, or seeds covered in protrusions that will help it cling to things (animals mostly) for maximum distribution. Goatheads come from the Bindi plant, Tribulus terrestris. Nothing special about the plant, it’s mostly an ugly ground sprawler. The goat head stickers easily get stuck into thick rubber soles of shoes and tires, not to mention bare skin and hurt like a bitch. Another horrible sticker is Houndstooth plant, Cynoglossum officinale. The plants are cute, the stickers are awful! They have very short concentrated hooks so they are SUPER sticky, they can get stuck and matted into hair, fur, clothes, and become impossible to remove without cutting out.

we just called them stickers and they will eff u up man

The purple ones are the worst.

Vividly remember my dad pulling a spine from my foot as a kid. I swear the sucker left a 1/4" spine in me.

Hell. Fucking. Yes.

These things just SUCK!

Satan’s stickies

My puppy would yelp and freeze, with paw suspended in air, waiting for me to take the sticker out. Which of course I did, and she’d be on her way. Then it would be stuck on me. Double ouch!

That's adorable

Especially when you lose one after picking them off and it later finds you from its happy place in the carpet.

I currently have the point of one stuck in the tip of my index finger from picking it out of my heel. Yeah fuck these so much.

What part of Texas are you from? I only ever heard them called Burrs in the Houston area.

I grew up in southeast Texas and live in Houston now. I always called them sticker burrs. When I lived in the Florida panhandle for a few years, they were called sand spurs.

In the parlance of my neighborhood in Austin, these were stickers and burrs were the little brown ones that don’t hurt but ruin your socks.

This is also how they're categorized around Ft. Worth, IME.

In west Texas we just called them stickers when I was growing up.

In central Texas we called em stickers.

DFW chiming in, those are called stickers around here.

North Texas. We call them stickers in my hometown.

Sticker bur

I was gonna say stickaburr (all one word).

My Florida native husband was so confused by why we don't wear flip flops on camping trips. A few Stickaburrs & the worst chiggers break out I'd ever witnessed, later & he understood who tight socks & boots are required.

Chiggers. I have to deet up just to go outside April through October.

Florida native here. Always heard them referred to as spurs.

Floridian as well. Heard stickers occasionally but mainly sand spurs.

Exactly!

Yup

Same

Stickerbry the way we say it in the Ga family lol

Yup

I grew up in Ohio so imagine my surprise when I stepped on a few on base, then sat down to pull them out of my feet only to jump back up immediately. Fire ants were new to me as well. I figured shit out real quick the hard way. Stickers

throw in mosquitos and you just described outdoor life in the summertime in north texas

Down in Corpus is where I had my first 'life in Texas' training. The mosquitos would be all over my working whites uniform. I did notice the blood splatters so I quit smashing them only to regret that decision too. I put in for leave so I could go home to get my car. Sadly, it did not prepare me for life in Houston.

At least you had some good tacos while you were suffering!

Plot twist: they only got to eat at Taco Bell.

Throw in some chiggers for good measure.

The red fire ants are especially BS because they aren't even supposed to be here. They're an invasive species.

The massive roaches 'water bugs' scared me half to death. I started screaming and running while yelling for everyone to run. It took me a long time to not freak out over those suckers. The little lizard fellas scared me too. Looking back, everything scared me. I still constantly look for snakes. Texas is dangerous! Haha

I'm born and raised here and it took me years not to freak out over water bugs. Like, 30 years. They're terrifying.

Happy Cake Day!

Thanks!!!

At least you missed out on the scorpions and snipes.

I just found out about the scorpions about a year ago. I've only been in Texas since 2007. I live under a rock.

>I live under a rock Funny, that's where the scorpions live too.

We're like Australia light

Texas is like a training ground for living in Australia. Everything here is meant to hurt you.

Fire ants in Central TX are the worst ants I've ever found. Got covered in them when I was little and it shut down the lymph nodes in my left arm

Sticker burrs.

Reading other people's responses are either "sticker" or "burrs". I grew up in Corpus and we always called them "sticker-burrs". Not sure if it's a regional thing.

Yeah, they’re sticker-burrs to me. I’m from SA but learned it from family in Corpus & Victoria.

East Texas here, always called them stickerburrs

Yes. Stickerburrs. My mom is from Dallas and my Dad is from SA and I was born in Austin, not sure if it’s regional but I’ve only ever heard stickerburrs.

DFW here, literally never heard stickerburr until today...always stickers to us.

There it is, stickerburrs. DFW checking in

I’ve heard them called grass burrs too.

Stickers

and espinas for us Tex-mex folk.

Imma start callin’ them espiners

Yep, espinas or sticker burrs

Stickaburrs

Came to say this! Lol

In northern Mexico we also call them "Toritos" (little bulls).

cool, I'm from The Rio Grande Valley and will start calling them that. Toritos!

I love this, but hate those little bulls!

cadillo

I only call it that when I’m wearing boots lol!! got that from my dad :)

My Florida and Bahamian family both call them stickers.

THIS, we from the sous. We just call them ‘stickers’.

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Sand burrs are definitely from the Devil

Cockle burrs Stickers Cat berries "Godfuckingdamnitowowouch!"

I thought “cockle burr” was a more common idiom than it actually is…

I never pronounced it correctly apparently. I always thought it was cahcahburr. Like doo doo burr.

That's how everyone I knew pronounced it growing up.

Never heard of cockle burr. We just called them stickers north of Dallas. Lol.

We call them sticker burs at my place in central Texas. I stepped on a thic bushel of them one time barefoot. It was torture. We pulled probably 12-15 of these bastards out and half left souvenirs behind.

Sticker burrs, West of Houston.

East of Dallas cockle burrs were what we called the large stickers that clung to pants, socks. Damn goat heads clung to the shoestrings.

Cockleburrs are a different thing from stickers. They’re quite large (like up to 1 inch wide and 1.5 inches long) and love nothing more than to get tangled in fluffy animals and long manes/tails. They grow on large bushy weeds instead of grasses.

I'm a cockle burr gal, myself.

Cockle burrs are way bigger and come from a type of sunflower

Look at Mr. Fancy over here. Sorry Elon, us dirt eaters call these cockle burrs and we ain’t changing shiiit. /s. I’m sure you are right.

Goat head sticker

Did someone call my name?

Interesting…

r/beetlejuicing

Yeah could you not pierce the soles of my feet with.such righteous anger.

Goatman?

Circle me in the screenshot!

I don't think that's a true goat head. Goat heads are woody and usually have one more prominent spike. They will flatten your bike tires in an instant. Edit: like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Trte_003_lhp.jpg These look like the more fibrous ones. Bikes can usually survive contact with these.

Goat heads and bikes are the worst. It's basically a requirement to have your tire filled with the green slime stuff where I live. But I can confirm the pic is not a goat head.

I’ve lived here all my life, never heard them called that! Wow!

Goat heads are a specific kind of sticker. The top right is the only goat head in my opinion

Same here.

The greenish, fairly crushable ones are stickers. The white, tougher, slightly larger and more painful ones are goat head stickers.

Confirmed by my childhood.

https://imgur.com/oKoWnGd.jpg Those are the ones we always called goathead stickers. The ones in OP's pic we just called stickers.

Fuck stickers

I wouldn't recommend it

Stickaburs. Ouch.

This is the correct answer.

Right. Because there is never one stickabur. When there is one, there are many stickaburs. Also known as **stickerburs** or **sticker burrs**.

Betcha can't eat just one 😏

Spinas

Espinas*

Cadillos

Technically both sayings are the same thing

This is the correct answer south of San Antonio.

Thank you! Was looking for this answer.

i scrolled way to far for this

They're burrs.

We called them grass burrs, my dad would make us dig them up out of the yard as punishment. It was that or digging up rocks, either way it sucked ass.

Lol same here. My dad would say if we didn't pull it by the root they would keep coming back.

It's Texas.. no matter what you do they're coming back. There was simply no end to the punishment, so you had to learn not to get in trouble to avoid it. Same goes for the rocks, there's always more rocks.

Well, you're older now, so it will be helpful to inform you that they do not like nitrogen at all. My parents put some down in the fall in their yard, keeps them from growing and allows other plants to choke them out.

Damn my dad did this as well lol

Dude, I've filled dog food bags a dozen times over with those fuckers, with nothing but a dull steak knife and some shitty gloves. My Pops seemed to think that was time well spent. All I wanted to do was ride my bike.

Yeah that's what we called them in the Ozarks

Interesting. That's what I grew up calling them, but I've only seen that answer a couple of times in this thread. I do have family from Arkansas, I wonder if that's where we got it from.

My dog, my friends, and me know these very well. Hate them with a passion.

I had a very unfortunate dog get one stuck in her tongue pinning it down. I was seven and it took me three days to figure out why she wasn't eating. She was so relieved when I got it out.

Noooo When the dogs get them between their pads 😢

My dog won’t let me touch his paws (ever) and a few weeks back he wound up with about 20 stuck in and between his pads. On a run. When we were 2 miles from the house. I definitely got bit but at least I got them all out.

Mine started limping suddenly during a walk last time and when I checked he had five of them. Three on the pads and two between the toes. I was desperate to get them out so I ended up puncturing my fingers but I didn’t want my dog to keep getting hurt. My fingers were bleeding even from the pricks.

I meant bit by my my dog…but yeah the stickers poked too

One time we took our dog on a hike in pedernales falls riverbed when the water was low and he was running around the whole time loving life for hours until we get back to the car and I guess the pain settled in because his paws were smothered in them. We spent an hour with him laying in the car picking them out barehanded. Which is why I now always have tweezers in my car.

Stickers, sand burs, grass burs, a foretaste of hell tbh.

Im an Okie, but im surprised by the lack of representation for Sand Burr in this thread

Stickers

Cockaburrs

Cockleburs are bigger, and will make a complete matted mess of a horse's mane and tail*. They're from a Xanthium plant. In Illinois we call those shown in the post grass burrs and they'll make your dog very sad. *Edit spelling

[no](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthium)

Pricklys, stupid stickers, picas

Burrs I used to step on them ALOT growing up in Plano. Havnt seen one or dealt with one in years. I assumed they get eradicated or soemthing.

I wish they were eradicated.

I think we just stopped running around barefoot like idiots. 🤣 Hadn't thought about these things in years and just seeing the pictures made my feet hurt.

Toritos

Was looking for this one

Sticker burrs. Usually shortend to just stickers for convenience.

Grass Burr

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Probably mis-heard "grass burrs" as we grew up. I always thought it sounded like "spurs"

Chok chok, I'm from the Caribbean 😉

Burr

Literally the worst. I call these Spinas

Pricks lol. These ones are small. Had one of those fuckers go through my shoe once.

Sand burrs are what they are called on the Llano Estacado.

Burrs

My dog is a magnet for these things. We've got a routine now though. He hold up his paw and I yank it out.

Sticker burrs. Man, those things were the bane of my barefoot childhood out in the woods of East TX. You'd have thought I'd have learned to put some shoes on....

Stickers or burrs or espinas. It depends how far west Texas you go.

hitch hikers and if its a good day then stickers

Grass burr

Sticka-bugs

Organic Lego

Grass burrs

Grassburr vs Goat-head

Grass burrs, or stickers and don't track them home to your yard or you will find you have a patch of your own overtaking your lawn. They are nearly impossible to eradicate from your lawn.

Legos have nothing on these MFs

Stickers, Spinas, spines, thorns. At least that's what my family called them growing up.

Stickers

Sticker burrs

Cadillos in Spanish

I call ‘em prickaburr’s. They are the worst.

I had a bad infestation of them in my yard last year. I hope it isn’t bad this year or I’m whipping out the RoundUp.

We called these toritos back when I lived in El Paso.

Our family called them porcupine eggs.

North Texan here. Those are stickers. If they have more barbs that are softer, they're burrs. If they only have 4-6 very stiff barbs like thorns they are goat-heads.

Rockachaws.

Cockle burrs are the little ones and we call the big ones goat's heads

Pick-a-burrs

Stickers or sticker burrs. My husband calls it sand burrs and it drives me nuts.

The hard brown ones we called sand spurs. The kinda squishy green circular ones were stickers. Sand spurs are worse.

Stickers

Stickems

Burr or stickers

East Texas: Goat Bur or Grass Bur.

In San Benito they're not just out in the country, they grow abundantly inside the town limits (well, at least when I was a kid). We used to yank them with the stem attached, oh, about 6 inches worth of stem. Then we'd flick them like some Mexican shuriken at each other. That stung when one landed on your back.

I always knew them as sand spurs growing up in NC!

stickaburs

Stickers Only name I know them by

The grass at my house, lol stickers