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Galium spurium

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Austria
• Balearic Islands
• Belgium
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Burundi
• Alberta
• Manitoba
• Nova Scotia
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan - Canada
• Canary Islands
• Chad
• China
• Corsica
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Egypt
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iran
• Iraq
• Italy
• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Is.
• Shikoku - Japan
• Kenya
• Korea
• Kosovo
• Kyrgystan
• Libya
• Macedonia
• Malawi
• Morocco
• Netherlands
• Norway
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Sakhalin Oblast - Russia
• Rwanda
• Sardinia
• Saudi Arabia
• Serbia
• Siberia
• Sicily
• Sinai
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Somalia
• Cape Province
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Spain
• Sudan
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Tanzania
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• Illinois
• Nebraska - USA
• Yemen
• Zaire

Natural Habitats

• Cultivated land
• hedgerows
• grassland
• wasteland
• lowland and montane thickets

Flowering Times

• Jun-Jul (Europe)
• My-Jul (Japan)

Fruiting Times

Annual or biennial herb prostrate or scrambling with prickly or scabrous stems & leaves, leaves to 30mm x 4mm. Terminal and axillary cymes of up to 9 flowers, small flowers greenish or yellowish, glabrous or hispid fruit to 3mm blackish with hooked prickles

Further References

• FOBI
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Kew
• FOJ