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Galium mexicanum
Galium mexicanum, Mexican bedstraw, is a scrambling subshrub in the coffee family found from western North America to Ecuador. It is a wild species rather than a common garden or houseplant, so care advice is general.
Galium mexicanum, the Mexican bedstraw, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It has a widespread distribution from British Columbia south to Ecuador.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Galium mexicanum 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.
