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Galium aparine
Galium aparine
- Botanic Family
- Rubiaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
- Propagation
- S.
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Austria
- Azores
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canary Islands
- China
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Greece
- Gulf States
- Hungary
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Korea
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Madeira
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Vietnam
- Yugoslavia
Natural Habitats
- Cultivated land
- wasteland
- hedgerows
- montane areas
- forest margins
- riversides
- coastal
- swampy areas.
Flowering Times
- July to Aug Mar-Jul (China)
Fruiting Times
- July to Aug Apr-Nov (China)
Scrambling or prostrate annual prickly herbaceous vine with quadrangular stems & branches, stiff hairs all over plant. 6-9 leaves to 30mm long in a whorl, mucronulate leaves scabrous or prickly on margins. Terminal or axillary cymes or subpanicles of 1-3 yellowish-green or white flowers to 5mm diameter, hairy calyx tube to 0.74mm long, 4 petals 0.75mm long. bristly fruit 5.5mm diameter. Bristly fruit to 3mm x 6mm diameter, hooked bristles, olive-green or purplish.
Juice of plant has medicinal uses. Seeds have been used as a coffee substitute, tea can be made from the dried plant, used as a medicine for geese, roots produce a red dye
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Huxley 1992
- Manandhar
- FONZ
- FOBI
- FOC
- The Plant List 2
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- FOTA
- FOPE
- USNH
- Gleason & Moldenke
- Kew