Galium parisiense

Wall bedstraw

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Wall bedstraw is a naturalized annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, southern Coast Ranges, southern California, Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges (Orange County) in warm, dry rocky soils, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, and grassy oak hillsides at elevations of 110 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces white to light purple flowers in small, open panicles with thread-like pedicels. Growing with slender, scabrous stems 15 to 68 centimeters tall, it develops an erect habit. Its leaves are arranged in whorls of 6, measuring 4 to 9 millimeters long, lanceolate to oblanceolate, and typically reflexed with age. The tiny fruits have short, hooked hairs or occasionally no hairs at all.

Habitat: Warm, dry, generally rocky soil to moist areas, coastal-sage scrub, chaparral, grassy hillsides with oaks, roadsides

Bloom period: Apr-Aug

Elevation: 110-2200 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, SN, SnFrB, SCoR, SCo, WTR, PR (Orange Co.)

California counties: Humboldt, Kern, Tuolumne, Santa Barbara, Tulare, Butte, Calaveras, Sonoma, Fresno, San Bernardino, Lake, Los Angeles, Monterey, Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, San Diego, Mariposa, Placer, Tehama, Orange, Contra Costa, Colusa, Glenn, Riverside, Shasta, Stanislaus, Madera, Siskiyou, Solano, Yuba, El Dorado, Amador, Nevada, Santa Cruz, Mendocino, Marin, Sacramento, Trinity, Sutter, Napa, San Benito, Alameda, San Mateo, Ventura, Yolo, Sierra, San Joaquin

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