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Galium


The botanical name for sweet woodruff.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers
  Synonym: genus Galium

 
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Not to be confused with Gallium.
Galium
Flowers of woodruff (Galium odoratum)
Flowers of woodruff (Galium odoratum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
(unranked) Euasterids I
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Galium
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Species

About 400; see text

Galium is a large genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Rubiaceae, with about 400 species occurring in the temperate zones of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Most species are known as bedstraw.

The Field Madder (Sherardia arvensis) is a close relative and may be confused with a tiny bedstraw. Asperula ise also a close relative; some species of Galium (such as woodruff) are occasionally placed therein.

Bedstraws are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species. See list of Lepidoptera which feed on Galium.

Selected species

Galium truniacum
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Galium truniacum
  • Galium aetnicum
  • Galium album - Upright Bedstraw, Upright Hedge Bedstraw, White Bedstraw
  • Galium angulosum
  • 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 boreale - Northern Bedstraw
  • Galium brevipes - Limestone Swamp Bedstraw
  • Galium catalinense
    • Galium catalinense ssp. catalinense - Santa Catalina Bedstraw
  • Galium ciliare
  • Galium circaezans - Licorice Bedstraw
  • 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 glaucum - Glaucous Bedstraw
  • Galium humifusum
  • Galium hypocarpium
  • Galium kamtschaticum - Boreal Bedstraw
  • Galium labradoricum - Bog Bedstraw
  • Galium lanceolatum - Torrey's wild licorice
  • Galium longifolium
  • Galium lucidum
  • Galium mexicanum - Mexican Bedstraw
  • Galium multiflorum - Many-flower Bedstraw
  • Galium murale
  • Galium nigroramosum
  • Galium normanii
  • 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 pumilum - Slender Bedstraw
  • Galium rotundifolium
  • Galium rubioides
  • Galium rubrum
  • Galium saxatile - Heath Bedstraw
  • Galium schultesii
  • 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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