Kingdom Plantae Family Rubiaceae Rank Species | Order Gentianales Genus Galium | |
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Similar Galium asprellum, Galium andrewsii, Galium buxifolium, Galium californicum, Galium catalinense | ||
Galium concinnum, the shining bedstraw, is a plant species in the Rubiaceae. It is native to the Midwestern United States and central Canada, especially the Great Lakes Region and the Valleys of the Ohio, lower Missouri, and upper Mississippi Rivers. The range extends from eastern Oklahoma to eastern Nebraska, north to Ontario and east to Virginia and New York. It is reportedly naturalized in Utah and considered a noxious weed in Pennsylvania.
Galium concinnum is a reclining, profusely branched herb with narrow linear leaves in whorls of 6. Flowers are small but numerous, white.
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