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Galium rotundifolium

Galium rotundifolium
Photo: Michael Becker, CC BY-SA 3.0

Galium rotundifolium, round-leaved bedstraw, is a wild erect herb of the coffee family found across most of Europe and parts of Asia and North Africa. It is a native wildflower of woodland and hedgerow edges, not a commonly grown garden plant.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist in cultivation; it grows in damp woodland conditions.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich woodland soil.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates, roughly -15 to 25 °C.
How easy
Easy

About

Galium rotundifolium (round-leaved bedstraw) is a plant species of the Rubiaceae. It is widespread across most of Europe, with the range extending into Morocco, the Caucasus, and southwest Asia from Turkey to Afghanistan. There are also reports of isolated populations in Vietnam, Sabah and Java.

Galium rotundifolium is an erect herb. Leaves are broadly ovate, almost round, usually in whorls of 4, with prominent veins. Flowers are in a widely branching terminal panicle. Fruits are green, with long hooked hairs.

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 · Rough bedstraw

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Galium rotundifolium 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.

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