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Galium album
White bedstraw (Galium album) is a hardy herbaceous plant of the coffee family, native to much of Europe, that grows as an upright, square-stemmed weed of pastures and grassy banks. Its sources describe it as an annual, though Kew lists it as a perennial, so it is best grown as a wild hedgerow or meadow plant rather than a garden ornamental.
Galium album, common names white bedstraw and upright hedge bedstraw, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae and is native to much of Europe.
Galium album is widespread over much of Europe, native to a large region from Britain to Morocco, east to Turkey and Western Siberia. It has been introduced and is naturalized in Ireland, Scandinavia, Greenland and South Australia. It is found in pastures and grassy banks, especially on dry calcareous soils. In Britain, G. album is local in lowland England, rare in the north, and very rare in Scotland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Galium album by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
