Galium nuttallii

San diego bedstraw, San Diego Bedstraw

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

San diego bedstraw is a California native perennial found in coastal and southern California mountain habitats, forming dense, tangled climbing stems. Flowering from spring to summer, this plant produces small rotate flowers with a reddish cast in delicate axillary clusters. Growing 6 to 15 decimeters tall with slender, woody stems that darken to deep red with age, it forms intricate, intertwined patches. Its leaves grow in tight whorls of 4, measuring 3 to 8 millimeters long, with narrow linear to ovate shapes that are leathery and tipped with sharp, stout hairs. The plant produces small glabrous berries in individual leaf axils.

California counties: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego, El Dorado, Orange, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Lake, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Calaveras, Humboldt, Sonoma, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Riverside, Ventura, Alameda, Napa, Nevada, Marin, Tuolumne, Tulare, Butte, San Benito, Placer, Solano, Shasta, Sierra, Mendocino, Stanislaus, Monterey, Contra Costa, Yolo, Mariposa

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