bedstraw
Galium
Summary 7
Galium is a large genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Rubiaceae, occurring in the temperate zones of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Some species are informally known as bedstraw.
Description 8
Annual or perennial herbs, erect, creeping or climbing. Stems often 4-angled, sometimes prickly. Stipules similar to the leaves. Leaves (and leaf-like stipules) in whorls of 4-10, ± sessile. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes, bisexual, rarely unisexual, usually 4-merous, not enclosed in an involucre. Calyx reduced to a rim; teeth 0. Corolla rotate to ± campanulate, greenish, creamy-white to bright yellow. Ovary 2-locular with 1 ovule per loculus. Fruit dry, glabrous or variously hairy, consisting of two 1-seeded mericarps.
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- (c) bramblejungle, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/10728961@N02/4624840039
- (c) Marek Velechovský, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/101353.jpg
- (c) Valter Jacinto, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7363/9568333423_e4506fb89c_o.jpg
- (c) User:Jutta234, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Campanula_rotundifolia_and_Galium_verum_-_Iceland_-2007-07-23.jpg/460px-Campanula_rotundifolia_and_Galium_verum_-_Iceland_-2007-07-23.jpg
- (c) Biopix, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.biopix.com/photos/JCS-Galium-valdepilosum-59966.JPG
- (c) Biopix, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.biopix.com/photos/JCS-Galium-elongatum-61125.JPG
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galium
- (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/19230438
