Galium catalinense

Santa Catalina Island bedstraw

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: shrub · Native

Santa Catalina Island bedstraw is a California native shrub found on Santa Catalina Island, growing in coastal habitats. Flowering from spring to summer, this plant produces small, nearly white flowers in dense, leafy axillary clusters. Growing to less than 1.2 meters tall with stout, rigid stems that have distinctively enlarged nodes, it forms an erect and structured shrub. Its leaves grow in tight whorls of 4, measuring 13 to 25 millimeters long, with lanceolate to oblanceolate shapes and generally obtuse to rounded tips. The plant's fruit is notable for having long, straight, spreading hairs that give it a distinctive appearance.

California counties: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Orange

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.