three-petal bedstraw
Galium trifidum ssp. columbianum
Member of
three-petal bedstraw (Galium trifidum)
bedstraws (genus Galium)
madder family (family Rubiaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)
- habit: perennial herb (annual), sprawling, minutely scabrous
- stem: 10–50 cm, slender, weak, tangled
- leaf: in whorls of 4–6, 4–19 mm, linear to elliptic or oblong; tip rounded; petioled
- inflorescence: several-flowered clusters, pedicels slender
- flower: bisexual; corolla generally 3-lobed, rotate, white to ± pink, glabrous
- [all others generally have 4 corolla lobes]
- rare near Pacific coast
Chris’s observations: none
Not all sites include this taxon:
Bay Area species:
iNaturalist
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Calflora
