Common name: Hedge Bedstraw
Scientific name: Galium album
Genus: Galium 拉拉藤屬, 豬殃殃屬
Family: Rubiaceae 茜草科, coffee, madder or bedstraw family
Origin: native
Date: 1st July
Date: 1st July
A decumbent to erect plant, can reach up to 120 cm. Inflorescence axillary. (vs erect, unbranched plant. Inflorescence a terminal panicle in Galium ordoratum 香豬殃殃, 香車葉草, 車軸草, Woodruff)
Leaves 5-8 per whorl.
Leaves linear-obovate, mucronate (with apical point), margins with forward-directed prickles. (vs leaves blunt or acute, not mucronate in Galium sterneri, limestone bedstraw, and Galium pumilum, slender bedstraw.)
Leaves 1-veined, 5-8 in a whorl. (vs leaves 3-veined, 4 per whorl in Galium boreale 北方拉拉藤, Northern bedstraw)
Stems 4-angled.
Stems, enlarged below to see the details.
Stem pubescent. (vs stems distinctly rough with recurved prickles on angles in other Galium spp.)
Another stem, enlarged below to see the details.
Glabrous stem. (vs stems distinctly rough with recurved prickles on angles in other Galium spp.)
Side view and underside of the flowers. 2 stigmas are clearly seen on the lower left flower.
Flower white, 4 petals. Corolla lobes with fine points. (vs flowers yellow in Galium verum 蓬子菜, lady's bedstraw)
Fruits forming (8th Aug)
Fruits smooth to wrinkled.
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