🪶Indigenous / Native American🍀Celtic & Norse Herbalism
Cleavers (Goosegrass)
Galium aparine
About Cleavers (Goosegrass)
Cleavers (Goosegrass) (Galium aparine) is a herb used in the Indigenous / Native American and Celtic & Norse Herbalism traditions to help with Lymph, Kidney Support, Skin Health, and Detox, among 2 other conditions it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, used both internally and topically.
Botanical background
Galium aparine, ('aparine' from Greek 'apairo' - “lay hold of” or “seize”) with many common names including cleavers, clivers, "bort", bedstraw, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, stickybud, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willy, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, and grip grass, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · bothLeaves · both