| Galium verum L. | |||
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| Family | Rubiaceae — APG family: Rubiaceae | ||
| Description | Stems glabrous or sparsely pubescent, branched, 4-angled from stoloniferous, slender rhizome; leaves linear, mucronate, 1-veined, with revolute margins, rough above, pubescent beneath; flowers in terminal leafy panicle; corolla yellow, with 4 apiculate lobes; fruit smooth, glabrous; plant coumarin-scented. | ||
| Ecology | Dry, grassy slopes. Described from Europe. Introduced on the Chukchi Peninsuia. |
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.