Galium
| Galium | |
|---|---|
| |
| Flouers o Galium aparine | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Faimily: | Rubiaceae |
| Tribe: | Rubieae |
| Genus: | Galium L. |
| Diversity | |
| c. 650, see text | |
Galium is a lairge genus o annual an perennial yerbaceous plants in the faimily Rubiaceae, occurrin in the temperate zones o baith the Northren an Soothren Hemispheres. Some species are informally kent as Bedstraw.[1]
Thare are ower 600 species of Galium,[2] wi estimates o 629[3] tae 650[4] as o 2013. The field madder, Sherardia arvensis, is a close relative an mey be ramfeeselt wi a tiny bedstraw. Asperula is a closely relatit genus an aw; some species o Galium (such as woodruff, G. odoratum) are occasionally placit tharein.
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eedit- Media relatit tae Galium at Wikimedia Commons
- Data relatit tae Galium at Wikispecies
- World Checklist of Rubiaceae
- UniProt. "Genus Galium". Retrieved 7 Mey 2008.
