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Galium mexicanum

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Kunth

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• British Columbia - Canada
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Idaho
• Montana
• Nevada
• New Mexico
• Oregon
• Texas
• Utah
• Washington - USA
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Humid forest
• disturbed forest
• evergreen montane forest

Flowering Times

• Jul
• Aug
• Nov

Fruiting Times

• Jun

Herbaceous procumbent or scrambling vine with sticky prickly hairy angled stems. Glabrous or hispid on margins & nerves beneath prickly leaves to 25mm x 3mm, 6-8 in a whorl. Terminal corymbs subtended by leaf-like bracts, of white, yellowish-green or purple-red flowers to 2mm long, white, pink or red corolla to 1.5mm long glabrous outside pouberulous within. Green to black 3mm diameter hispid fruits, whitish hairs.

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• RSNRV
• Rub Col
• USDA
• Kew
• Flora Costaricensis
• Standley