Galium sylvaticum

Galium sylvaticum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Genus:	Galium
Species:	G. sylvaticum
Binomial name
	Galium sylvaticum; L.

Galium sylvaticum, commonly known as Scotch mist or wood bedstraw, is a plant species of the genus Rubiaceae. Its genus name, Galium, is derived from the Greek word for "milk," apparently because some species have been used to curdle milk.^[1]

It is native to central Europe: France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary,^[2] the former Yugoslavia and smaller countries in between.^[3]^[4] It is also naturalized in scattered locations in North America (Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Ontario, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington and Oregon).^[5] It is often found in anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed) habitats, forest edges, meadows and fields.^[1]

It is a perennial, branching herb with thin stems. Its leaves are in whorls of six, each narrowly linear. Flowers are in open terminal panicles, white and four-petaled.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Galium sylvaticum (wood bedstraw)". Go Botany. New England Wildflower Society. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
^ Hooker, Sir J.D. (1881). Britten, James (ed.). "Extracts and Notices of Books and Memoirs". Trimen's Journal of Botany: British and Foreign. 19. London: West, Newman & Co.: 60. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
^ "Galium sylvaticum". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
^ ^a ^b Altervista Flora Italiana
^ "Galium sylvaticum". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.

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[Go_Botany-1] "Galium sylvaticum (wood bedstraw)". Go Botany. New England Wildflower Society. Retrieved 2018-06-28.

[2] Hooker, Sir J.D. (1881). Britten, James (ed.). "Extracts and Notices of Books and Memoirs". Trimen's Journal of Botany: British and Foreign. 19. London: West, Newman & Co.: 60. Retrieved 19 September 2019.

[3] "Galium sylvaticum". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

[veronicalassen-4] Altervista Flora Italiana

[5] "Galium sylvaticum". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.

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