About as popular as the cockroach, and nearly as plentiful, the common cocklebur plant is well known to hikers — especially ones who hike with long-coated dogs — and of course it's recognized as a ...

If you are a cocker-spaniel, you may not want to look at this picture! Here’s a plant with a kind of midwinter brutal beauty, the drying leaf stalks topped with a constellation of brown, spiny burs.