Galium divaricatum
Lamarck's bedstraw, Lamarck's Bedstraw
Family: Rubiaceae · Type: annual · Not Native
Lamarck's bedstraw is a naturalized annual herb found in northern Coast Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada foothills, and San Francisco Bay Area in fields and slopes at elevations of 10 to 700 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces small white flowers in open terminal panicles with erect corolla lobes. Growing with slender, erect, and spreading stems less than 30 centimeters tall, the plant is glabrous to short-hairy. Its leaves grow in tight whorls of 5 to 8, typically weak-reflexed and less than 7 millimeters long, with a delicate lanceolate to oblanceolate shape. The plant produces smooth nutlets without accompanying hairs.
Habitat: Fields, slopes
Bloom period: May-Jul
Elevation: 10-700 m
Bioregions: NCoRO, n&c SNF, SnFrB
California counties: Trinity, Sonoma, Mendocino, El Dorado, Napa, Marin, Del Norte, Yuba, Humboldt, San Mateo, San Francisco, Butte, Alameda, Santa Cruz, Calaveras, Contra Costa, San Luis Obispo, Mariposa
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