| Galium boreale L. | |||
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| Family | Rubiaceae — APG family: Rubiaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Galium septentrionale Roem. & Schult., Galium boreale subsp. septentrionale (Roem. & Schult.) Iltis. | ||
| Description | Stems erect, quadrangular, branched, from creeping rhizome; leaves 4 in whorl, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, 3-veined, sessile, often with sterile branches in axils; flowers numerous in terminal panicles; corolla white, 4-lobed; fruit densely hispid in Alaska—Yukon plant. | ||
| Ecology | Stony slopes, meadows; common in the interior. Described from Europe. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.