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.

See an aw

References

↑ Galium. Archived 2017-06-05 at the Wayback Machine USDA PLANTS.
↑ Galium. Flora of China.
↑ "WCSP". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 5 Apryle 2010.
↑ Galium. The Jepson eFlora 2013.

Freemit airtins

Media relatit tae Galium at Wikimedia Commons
Data relatit tae Galium at Wikispecies
World Checklist of Rubiaceae
UniProt. "Genus Galium". Retrieved 7 Mey 2008.

[1] Galium. Archived 2017-06-05 at the Wayback Machine USDA PLANTS.

[2] Galium. Flora of China.

[WCSP-3] "WCSP". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 5 Apryle 2010.

[4] Galium. The Jepson eFlora 2013.

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