Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Galium liratum

Common name

Furrowed Bedstraw

Family

Rubiaceae

Where found

Moist sites in forest or woodland, often among rocks. Coast, ranges, tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park and west towards the Hume Highway. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Annual or biennial herb, creeping or sprawling to prostrate. Stems to 0.4 m long, 4-angled, rough with tiny backward pointing prickles, or sparsely hairy to hairless. Leaves and leaf-like stipules in whorls of 4, rarely 5, mostly 1–1.5 cm long, 2–5 mm wide, tips broadly pointed to blunt with a mucro, surfaces sparsely hairy; stalks conspicuous. Flowers white to cream, 1.5–2 mm in diameter, with 4 petals fused together near their bases, in clusters of 1–5 flowers. Flowering: most of the year. 'Seeds' about 1.3–1.8 mm long, with 5–7 irregular longitudinal ridges.

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~liratum  (accessed 22 January, 2021)