Galium trifidum

Three petaled bedstraw

Family: Rubiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Three petaled bedstraw is a California native perennial herb found in moist habitats across northern mountain and coastal regions. Flowering from June to August, this delicate plant produces tiny white to pale pink flowers in small clusters with a distinctive 3-lobed corolla. Growing with slender, weak stems 10 to 50 centimeters long that become tangled and minutely rough, it develops intricate branching patterns. Its leaves grow in whorls of 4 to 6, measuring 4 to 19 millimeters long, with linear to elliptic shapes and rounded tips. When mature, the plant produces small, hard, spheric black nutlets that persist after flowering.

California counties: Nevada, Calaveras, Del Norte, Fresno, Tulare, Sonoma, Madera, Los Angeles, Monterey, Modoc, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Butte, Kern, Plumas, Santa Clara, Tuolumne, Merced, Mendocino, Riverside, San Bernardino, Shasta, Mariposa, Mono, Tehama, El Dorado, Yuba, Colusa, Lassen, San Luis Obispo, Alameda, San Joaquin, Marin, Trinity, Placer, Santa Cruz, Alpine, Ventura

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