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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Galium mollugo
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
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INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium mollugo
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-015:
Galium mollugo FAMILY Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Galium mollugo var. mollugo
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Galium mollugo
COMMON NAME:
False Baby's Breath, Smooth Bedstraw, Hedge Bedstraw, Wild Madder
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gamo_001_lvd
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_355
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgmollugo_rm
Month Unknown NC-TN
The Roan Highlands
Flowers in a loose forked panicle. The plant erect and without prickles, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Galium mollugo
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium mollugo
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-015:
Galium mollugo
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Galium mollugo var. mollugo
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Galium mollugo
2480
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Moist roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
Uncommon in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Whorls of 5-8
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
Radially symmetrical
Sepals usually obsolete
4-lobed rotate corolla
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Summer
Dark brown
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p152
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p108
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p352
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p163
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