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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Galium circaezans
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium circaezans
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Galium circaezans
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium circaezans var. circaezans
INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium circaezans var. hypomalacum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-004:
Galium circaezans FAMILY Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Galium circaezans
COMMON NAME:
Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_gaci2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm060506_129
May Anderson County SC
Clemson Forest
Leaves oval or elliptic, broadest at the middle & blunt at the apex, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgcircaezans_ocst1
May
Leaves up to 1.25" long and half as wide, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Gill Newberry gn06_g_circaezans_fruits
June
Leaves ovate to elliptic, acute, sparsely hispidulous [w stiff minute hairs], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Gill Newberry gn06_galium_circaezans
June
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JK Marlow jkm120617_952
June Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200602_5598
June Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200602_5599
June Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm210619_1406
June Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210624_1591
June Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm180825_4167
August Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
Fruit bristly, dry not fleshy, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm180825_4169
August Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmgcircaezans_maybeocst
Month Unknown
Greenish flowers sessile, widely spaced on forked branches in upper axils, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Galium circaezans
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium circaezans
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Galium circaezans
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium circaezans var. circaezans
INCLUDING
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium circaezans var. hypomalacum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-004:
Galium circaezans
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Galium circaezans
588
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Mesic to dry forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Whorls of 4
Margins entire
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellowish-green
Radially symmetrical
Sepals usually obsolete
4-5 lobed rotate corolla
Bisexual
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Black
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p154
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p108
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p244?
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p261
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p304
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p164
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