Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Galium divaricatum
Common name
Slender bedstraw
Family
Rubiaceae
Where found
Dry open habitats, roadsides, and disturbed shaded areas. Tablelands, ACT and Western Slopes. Occasionally Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Introduced annual herb. Stems to 0.30 m long, 4-angled, becoming wiry, hairless or with scattered, short hairs or minute prickles. Leaves and leaf-like stipules in whorls of 6–8, gradually decreasing to 2 on the flowering branches, 0.3–1 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, tips pointed and often mucronate, surfaces more or less hairless, margins with tiny prickles. Flowers to 1 mm long, 0.4–0.7 mm in diameter, with 4 yellowish red or yellow tinged red petals, fused together near their bases, in clusters of 3–12-flowers. Flowering: September–January. 'Seeds' 0.4–1 mm long, finely warty.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Galium~divaricatum (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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