Galium multiflorum

Kellogg's bedstraw

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Kellogg's bedstraw is a California native perennial found in northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, Great Basin, and Desert Mountains in rocky sagebrush places at elevations of 1,300 to 2,900 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces white to pale pink flowers in delicate terminal panicles. Growing with erect stems 15 to 35 centimeters tall, it forms a woody base with slender, sometimes hairy branches. Its leaves grow in whorls of 4, arranged in two unequal pairs, with larger leaves 8 to 15 millimeters long, widely ovate to round, and gently arched. The fruit consists of small nutlets 4 to 7 millimeters long, covered in long, straight hairs.

Habitat: Rocky places in sagebrush

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 1300-2900 m

Bioregions: n SNH, GB, DMtns

California counties: Mono, Inyo, Modoc, Tulare, Lassen, Siskiyou, Riverside, Sierra, San Bernardino, Nevada, Placer

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