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Galium pilosum
Hairy bedstraw is a North American wild perennial herb of the coffee family, found in pine savannas, flatwoods and hammocks. It is grown mainly as a native wildflower or ground cover, and is sometimes treated as a weed.
Galium pilosum, the hairy bedstraw, is a species of plants in the Rubiaceae. It is native to the southern and eastern United States and Canada from Texas to Florida north to Kansas, Michigan, Ontario, Quebec and New Hampshire. There are also isolated populations in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Hispaniola. The plant is classified as a noxious weed in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
G. pilosum may reach between 3 and 8 decimeters (approximately 11.8 to 31.5 inches) in height. Leaves have a whorled arrangement and range in length between 1 and 2.5 centimeters long and 6 to 12 millimeters wide. Flowers are greenish, white, or maroon.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Galium pilosum 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.
