Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Galium ciliare subsp. ciliare
Common name
Hairy Bedstraw
Family
Rubiaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, grassland, and along streams. ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and nearby. Mountains west of Sydney.
Notes
Perennial herb, trailing to almost erect, often with extensive rhizomes. Stems 0.1–0.3 m long, 4-angled, with sparsely to moderately dense, slender hairs, occasionally with fine, shorter prickle-like hairs. Leaves and leaf-like stipules in whorls of 4, 0.2–1.5 cm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, tips blunt to pointed, upper surface glossy, both surfaces with scattered hairs or hairless, margins curved to rolled down. Flowers 1.5–3 mm diameter, with 4 pale yellow or cream petals fused together near their bases, in clusters of 2-7 flowers. Flowers late spring to summer. 'Seeds' about 0.8–1.5 mm long, hairless, wrinkled.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Galium~ciliare (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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