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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Galium album   FAMILY Rubiaceae   Go to FSUS key



(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium album   FAMILY Rubiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Galium mollugo

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2010)

Galium album

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Galium mollugo

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-015?:

Galium mollugo   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Galium mollugo var. erectum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Galium erectum

 

COMMON NAME:
white bedstraw


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image of Galium album, white bedstraw

USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970    swus_page_355

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Galium album   FAMILY Rubiaceae

(?) PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium album   FAMILY Rubiaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Galium mollugo

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2010)
Galium album

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium mollugo

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-015?:
Galium mollugo   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Galium mollugo var. erectum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Galium erectum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3884

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Moist roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Europe

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LEAVES:
Simple
Whorls of 5-8
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
Sepals usually obsolete
4-lobed rotate corolla
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer
Dark brown

 

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