Galium grayanum var. grayanum

Gray's bedstraw

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Gray's bedstraw is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, northern California Ranges, and northern Sierra Nevada at elevations of 1,830 to 3,500 meters in rocky slopes and ridges. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces small white flowers in delicate clusters. Growing with open, densely short-hairy stems 5 to 27 centimeters tall, it forms a relatively compact plant. Its leaves are narrow, 5 to 17 millimeters long with acute to obtuse tips, arranged in characteristic whorled patterns. The fruit is covered in small hairs, measuring 7 to 10 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, ridges

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 1830-3500 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, n SNH.

California counties: Butte, Inyo, Trinity, Plumas, Nevada, Glenn, Tehama, Siskiyou, Placer, Mendocino, Shasta, Sierra, Lake, Humboldt

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