Galium porrigens var. tenue

Graceful bedstraw

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Graceful bedstraw is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, California Ranges, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, south-central Coast Ranges, and southern California in chaparral and oak/pine woodland at elevations of 150 to 1,050 meters. Flowering from February to July, this plant produces pale yellow to red-green flowers in delicate, small clusters. Growing with slender, sprawling stems up to 50 centimeters long, it has a distinctive spreading growth habit. Its leaves are narrow and linear, 3 to 8 millimeters long with acute to obtuse tips, arranged in whorled patterns along the stems. The fruit is small and typical of the bedstraw family, blending seamlessly with the plant's delicate structure.

Habitat: Chaparral, oak/pine woodland

Bloom period: Feb-Jul

Elevation: 150-1050 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaRF, SN, SnFrB, SCoRI, SCo

California counties: Butte, Yolo, Placer, Calaveras, El Dorado, Colusa, Riverside, Napa, Sacramento, Shasta, Sonoma, Lake, Sutter, Tehama, Glenn, Mariposa, San Diego, San Benito, Stanislaus, Monterey, Tulare, Kern, Madera, Fresno, Tuolumne, Amador, Santa Clara, Trinity, Mendocino, San Luis Obispo, Nevada, Ventura, Solano

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