Galium aparine is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae. It has many common names including but not limited to hitchhickers, clivers, bedstraw, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, sticky bob, and cleavers. Native to Eurasia, cleavers is valuable as a diuretic, treatment for skin diseases such as eczema and psoriasis, for swollen lymph glands, and for its anticancer properties.