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Rough bedstraw

Galium asprellum

Rough bedstraw
Photo: GrammarFascist, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
E. Canada to C. & E. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Galium asprellum, the rough bedstraw, is a plant species in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to eastern Canada and northeastern United States, from North Carolina and Tennessee north to Minnesota, Ontario and Newfoundland. It is considered a noxious weed in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont, and is abundantly common in the other New England states and in sections of the Great Lakes region. It is a perennial herb. Leaves are simple with three or more leaves per node. Flowers have four petals and are white in color.

Other Galium plants

Mount Aetna Bedstraw · White bedstraw · Phloxleaf bedstraw · Narrowleaf bedstraw · Alpine Bedstraw · Galium antarcticum · Stickywilly · Sand Bedstraw · Argus bedstraw · Awned bedstraw · Arkansas bedstraw · Galium austriacum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Galium asprellum 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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