Common Sensitive Weed (Mimosa pudica)

What starts small can quickly spread through the rural countryside, both difficult to manage and uncooperative to handle. The leaves fold upon touch and pods form full of seeds. The pink pom pom flower is attractive to look at but if you touch the prickles on the sides of the stems will protect the plant. What starts out small...........and ends up an enormous problem for both rural and urban countryside, for animals, native fauna and humans.

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