Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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