Galium aparine (Common Bedstraw)

3/24/17 Dripping Springs trailhead, Agua Tibia, 

Cleveland National Forest, Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Common Bedstraw

SPECIES: Galium aparine

FAMILY: Rubiaceae (Madder Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/24/17

LOCATION: Dripping Springs Trailhead, Agua Tibia Wilderness, Cleveland National Forest, Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from Jepson eFlora:

NATIVE

Habit: Annual, climbing or prostrate, occasionally short, erect; clings by small, hooked prickles. 

Stem: 3--9 dm, weak, brittle. 

Leaf: in whorls of 6--8, 13--31 mm, proximal-most petioled, +- round, distal sessile, +- narrowly oblanceolate. 

Inflorescence: flowers few on branchlets in most axils. 

Flower: bisexual; corolla rotate, +- white. 

Fruit: nutlets; hairs many, short, hooked.

Ecology: Grassy, +- shady places; 

Elevation: 30--1500 m. 

Bioregional Distribution: CA (exc DSon); 

Distribution Outside California: to Alaska, eastern North America; Europe. 

Flowering Time: Mar--Jul 

 
Jepson eFlora Author: Valerie Soza