Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Galium aparine
Galium aparine L.
Stickywilly, Catchweed Bedstraw, Cleavers, Common Bedstraw, Sticky Weed, Goose Grass
Rubiaceae (Madder Family)
USDA Symbol: GAAP2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), AK (N), CAN (I?), GL (I?)
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Specimen & Label Data
Galium aparine
Catchweed Bedstraw
Rubiaceae
Location: E side of creek, just S of New Iron Bridge on Oakwell Farms Pky--Oakwell Farms,San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Half-shaded, damp, alluvial soil. Thick mass, large colony. Ubiquitous.
Description: Rambling, decumbent, vicariously branched annual from a slender taproot. Stem 4-angled, striate, retorsely hispid on angles and margins/lower midribs of leaves, to .5 m long. Leaves 6-8, in whorls at internodes, linear-oblance-olate, to 7 cm long, bristle tipped. Corolla small, white, on 1-3 flowered peduncles. Fruit not present.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Mar 8, 1993
Specimen number: 492
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0734
Accession Date: Apr 26, 1994
Accession Number: 53
Annotations: (in flower)
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