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Sleeping Grass

Mimosa pudica

Photo by SargonR
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Description:

Sensitive Plant, AKA Sensitive Plant, Humble Plant, Shameful Plant, Ant Plant or Touch-Me-Not, growing like a terrible spikey weed in my back yard. These are interesting because if you touch the leaves they close up on you.

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Mimosa pudica

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Achilles Tang
O'ahu, Hawai'i
Mission
National Geographic's Great Nature Project

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PublishedMay 10, 2014

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