Galium porrigens

Climbing bedstraw

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Climbing bedstraw is a California native perennial vine found in coastal and inland mountain ranges in chaparral, forest, and woodland habitats. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces small, rotating flowers ranging from yellow to reddish in color. Growing with slender, woody stems 1 to 15 decimeters long that cling and climb by recurved hairs, it develops a distinctive climbing habit. Its leaves grow in whorls of 4, each 2 to 18 millimeters long with acute to rounded tips, creating a delicate, intricate foliage pattern. The plant produces small glabrous berries, completing its complex reproductive cycle.

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

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