Quote Originally Posted by ccga3359 View Post
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Bad enough we send our geese down to you in the winter*, but now you name a prickly weed after us!
*So sorry about that BTW.
It's considered a noxious weed, probably brought here as seed attached to something. Possibly attached to one of those horrid birds. My campus is covered in goose poop, and people regularly get attacked by them (funny as heck to watch from a distance.)