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Piedmont bedstraw

Cruciata pedemontana

Piedmont bedstraw
Photo: Robert Flogaus-Faust, CC BY 4.0
Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Morocco, Europe to W. & C. Asia
Climate
temperate

About

Cruciata pedemontana, the Piedmont bedstraw, is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae. It is native to the southern and central Europe, the Black Sea Basin, and southwestern and Central Asia from Turkey to Iran to Kazakhstan. It is also naturalized in parts of the United States (south-central and eastern parts from Texas to New York, plus the northwest from Washington and Oregon to Montana).

Cruciata pedemontana is an erect herb up to 30 cm (12 in), covered with stiff hairs. Leaves are broadly ovate, usually four per node. Flowers are tiny, rarely more than 1 mm (0.039 in) across, axillary, pale yellow.

Other Cruciata plants

Cruciata glabra · Smooth bedstraw · Bedstraw

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cruciata pedemontana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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