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Galium triflorum (also known as cudweed, sweet-scented bedstraw, and fragrant bedstraw) is a herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae.It is widespread in northern Europe (Scandinavia, Switzerland, Russia, Baltic States), eastern Asia (Kamchatka, Japan, Korea, Guizhou, Sichuan), the Middle East and Indian subcontinent (parts of North India and Nepal), and North America (from Alaska and ...
It is derived from the Greek word for milk, because the flowers of Galium verum were used to curdle milk in cheese making. [7] Aparine is a name used by Theophrastus . It means 'clinging' or 'seizing', [ 7 ] and is derived from the Greek απαίρω apairo 'lay hold of, seize', itself coming from από 'from' + αίρω 'pull to lift'.
Catchweed bedstraw. There are at least 13 members of the bedstraw and madder family, Rubiaceae, found in Montana. [1] Some of these species are exotics (not native to Montana) [2] and some species have been designated as species of concern. [3] Catchweed bedstraw, Galium aparine; Baby's breath, Galium mollugo; Kelloggia, Kelloggia galioides
Some species are informally known as bedstraw. [1] There are over 600 species of Galium, [2] with estimates of 629 [3] to 650 [4] as of 2013. The field madder, Sherardia arvensis, is a close relative and may be confused with a tiny bedstraw.
Galium verum (lady's bedstraw [1] or yellow bedstraw) is a herbaceous perennial plant of the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread across most of Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia from Palestine, Lebanon and Turkey to Japan and Kamchatka. It is naturalized in Tasmania, New Zealand, Canada, and the northern half of the United States.
Galium odoratum, the sweet woodruff [1] or sweetscented bedstraw, [3] is a flowering perennial plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to much of Europe. It is widely ...
Galium concinnum, known as the shining bedstraw, is a herbaceous perennial plant species in the Rubiaceae family. [1] It is native to the Midwestern United States and central Canada, especially the Great Lakes Region and the Valleys of the Ohio , lower Missouri , and upper Mississippi Rivers . [ 2 ]
Galium trifidum is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family, known by the common name three-petal bedstraw. [1] It grows widespread in the arctic, temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere: northern and central Asia (Siberia, the Russian Far East, China, Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan), northern and eastern Europe (Scandinavia, France, Austria, Poland, Russia, Ukraine ...