Tendrils of bur cucumber (Sicyos angulatus) get tightly wound up wherever they touch the plant that the bur cucumber is climbing over. This bur cucumber is climbing over a sunflower at the north wetland at Celery Bog Park near Cumberland Drive.
Link to previous post on bur cucumber:
These are new bur cucumber tendrils reaching to find a plant.to grab. If they touch something they will wind up to look like the tendrils in the top picture.
Link to previous post on the sunflowers in the background.
Pictures taken August 12, 2013.
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