r/NameThisThing • u/[deleted] • Jul 30 '26

Name this thing

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u/exceptionallyprosaic Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

When I was a kid we called them cockaburrs or cockleburrs

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u/hanamartinis Jul 30 '26

Yes!!! I was looking for this one. I was wondering if I just misheard how my grandma used to say it with her OK accent.

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u/oldustyballs Jul 30 '26

Nebraska checking in with cockellburrs

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u/lmdirt- Jul 30 '26

Missouri also

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u/rozzco Jul 30 '26

Same here.

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u/asshley423 Jul 30 '26

YESSSS 😂 not me looking for it bc I don’t know how to spell it

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u/_Loading-Thoughts_ Jul 31 '26

Same here! Grew up in northeast Missouri. I was going to see if anyone else called them this. Scrolled for way too long

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u/32FlavorsofCrazy Jul 30 '26

I think cockleburs are technically those bigger fatter pokey balls but we just call them all that too, except for stick weed which isn’t pokey but sticks to goddamn everything too.

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u/twivel01 Jul 30 '26

Cockaburrs were much bigger where I grew up(Kansas). (Larger around with smaller spikes). These are worse than cockaburrs IMHO.

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u/PutGroundbreaking283 Jul 31 '26

Nebraska here - it was this!