Galium mexicanum subsp. asperulum

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Mexican bedstraw is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, high Cascade Range, central Sierra Nevada, and Modoc Plateau in wet streamside habitats at elevations of 550 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces small white flowers in delicate, open panicles with thread-like branches. Growing with spreading to reclining stems 45 to 90 centimeters long, it forms loose, relaxed clusters in moist environments. Its leaves grow in whorls of 5 to 8, each 13 to 25 millimeters long, with a narrow lanceolate shape that tapers to an acuminate tip. The fruit develops as small, slightly fleshy nutlets with a few short, upward-curving hairs.

Habitat: Wet places near streams

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 550-2500 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRO, NCoRH, CaRH, c SNH, MP

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