Galium

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Galium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Galium (Gallon was the name of a plant mentioned by Dioscorides as used in curdling milk. G. verum is locally used abroad for this purpose). Rubiaceae. Bedstraw or Ladies' Bedstraw, so-called because of the legend that one of these plants was in the hay on which the mother of Christ rested. Mostly weak or slender herbaceous plants with square, often barbed stems, and whorled leaves. Flowers very small, perfect, epigynous; calyx almost or quite obsolete; corolla gamopetalous, rotate, deeply 4-parted; divisions in our species acute or acuminate; stamens 4; ovary inferior, 2-cclled, forming a 2-lobed, 2-seeded, dry, indehiscent fr.; the lobes nearly globular. —About 220 species in various parts of the world. Noted for the recurved-scabrous sts. of many species, mathematical habit due to the whorled lvs., and the fine fluffy fls. The profuse-flowering species noted below are often used in rockeries and flower-beds for the regular but soft and filmy effect, which is similar to that of gypsophila. As cut-fls., they are used to lighten the effect of heavier fls. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Species

Galium truniacum

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• Galium aetnicum
• Galium album - Upright Bedstraw, Upright Hedge Bedstraw, White Bedstraw
• Galium ambiguum
• Galium andrewsii
• Galium angulosum
• Galium angustifolium - Narrowleaf Bedstraw
• Galium aparine - Goosegrass, Cleavers, Clivers, Stickywilly, Stickyweed, Catchweed, Coachweed, Common Bedstraw
• Galium arenarium - Sand Bedstraw
• Galium arkansanum
• Galium asprellum - Rough Bedstraw
• Galium australe
• Galium azuayicum
• Galium baldense
• Galium bifolium - Low Mountain Bedstraw
• Galium bolanderi - Bolander's Bedstraw
• Galium boreale - Northern Bedstraw
• Galium brevipes - Limestone Swamp Bedstraw
• Galium buxifolium - Box Bedstraw
• Galium californicum - California Bedstraw
• Galium catalinense
• Galium clementis - Santa Lucia Bedstraw
• Galium ciliare
• Galium circaezans - Licorice Bedstraw
• Galium cliftonsmithii
• Galium concinnum - Shining Bedstraw
• Galium constrictum
• Galium corrudaefolium
• Galium debile
• Galium divaricatum
• Galium ecuadoricum
• Galium elongatum - Great Marsh Bedstraw
• Galium firmum
• Galium flaccidum
• Galium fleurotii - Cheddar Bedstraw
• Galium fosbergii
• Galium gaudichaudii
• Galium glabrescens
• Galium glaucum - Glaucous Bedstraw
• Galium grande - San Gabriel Bedstraw
• Galium grayanum - Gray's Bedstraw
• Galium hardhamiae
• Galium hypotrichium

• Galium kamtschaticum - Boreal Bedstraw
• Galium labradoricum - Bog Bedstraw
• Galium lanceolatum - Torrey's wild licorice
• Galium longifolium
• Galium lucidum
• Galium matthewsii - Bushy Bedstraw
• Galium mexicanum - Mexican Bedstraw
• Galium migrans
• Galium mollugo
• Galium multiflorum - Shrubby Bedstraw
• Galium murale
• Galium nigroramosum
• Galium normanii
• Galium nuttallii
• Galium obliquum
• Galium obtusum - Blunt-leaf Bedstraw
• Galium odoratum - Woodruff, Sweet Woodruff, Wild Baby's Breath
• Galium oelandicum
• Galium olympicum
• Galium palustre - Common Marsh Bedstraw
• Galium parisiense - Wall Bedstraw
• Galium pilosum - Hairy Bedstraw
• Galium porrigens - Graceful Bedstraw
• Galium pumilum - Slender Bedstraw
• Galium ruwenzoriense (Cortesi) Chiov.
• Galium rotundifolium
• Galium rubioides
• Galium rubrum
• Galium saxatile - Heath Bedstraw
• Galium schultesii
• Galium serpenticum
• Galium sparsiflorum
• Galium spurium - False Cleavers
• Galium sterneri - Limestone Bedstraw
• Galium suecicum - Swedish Bedstraw
• Galium sylvaticum - Wood Bedstraw
• Galium tinctorium - Stiff Marsh Bedstraw
• Galium tricornutum - Corn Cleavers
• Galium trifidum - Small Bedstraw
• Galium triflorum - Sweet-scented Bedstraw, Conifer Bedstraw
• Galium truniacum
• Galium uliginosum - Fen Bedstraw
• Galium valdepilosum
• Galium verum - Lady's Bedstraw

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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