corn cleavers
Galium tricornutum
Member of
bedstraws (genus Galium)
madder family (family Rubiaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)
- habit: annual, sprawling to trailing, dense in flower, open in fruit
- stem: 10–35 cm, stout, ± glabrous
- leaf: in whorls of 6–8, 12–19 mm, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, margin short-recurved-prickly, thickened
- inflorescence: clusters, axillary, flowers few, peduncle < leaf, pedicel recurved
- flower: bisexual; corolla rotate, white
- Briones
Chris’s observations: none
Not all sites include this taxon:
Bay Area species:
iNaturalist
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Calflora
