You need to be able to distinguish between the boys and the girls. They are easy to tell apart. The male blooms are connected to the main stem of the plant by a simple, short green stem. Female blooms ...

You’ve just stepped on a burweed. Or maybe you call them spurweed. Either way, you’ve stepped on a cool-season annual broadleaf weed that produces a hard-coated, spiny seed, and boy does it hurt.