Galium glabrescens

Castle lake bedstraw

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Castle lake bedstraw is a California native perennial found in the northern California mountains in rocky or gravelly habitats at elevations of 1,500 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces yellow to reddish flowers in small clusters on short axillary branchlets. Growing with ascending green stems 5 to 31 centimeters tall, it forms a slightly woody base with a delicate, near-glabrous appearance. Its leaves grow in distinctive whorls of 4, with ovate to obovate shapes that are arranged tightly around the slender stems. The fruit develops as small nutlets with long, straight hairs spreading outward from the surface.

California counties: Siskiyou, Trinity, Glenn, Tehama, Del Norte

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