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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Galium circaezans
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Forest Bedstraw at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium circaezans var. circaezans
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database
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_gabe3_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 (4/24/22):
Galium circaezans
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium circaezans var. circaezans
FAMILY
Rubiaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
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
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
Sepals usually obsolete
4-5 lobed rotate corolla
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