Scientific Name
Galium aparine
Common Name
Bedstraw; Cleavers
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
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Height:
8 to 36 inches
Flower/fruit:
Small white flowers with four petals on stalks from the leaf axis
Flowering Season:
Summer into fall
Foliage:
1 to 3 inch lanceolate to linear leaves in whorls of 6 to 8 leaves; scratchy, recurved prickles on weak, four-sided stems; reclining plant
Site:
Thickets, woods, meadows, roadsides
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