Scientific name: Galium mollugo L.
Common name: Hedge Bedstraw
Description
Habit: Perennial.
Stems: Scrambling to erect, 4-angled, to 1.2 m long.
Leaves: Opposite, with several leafy and large stipules per leaf making it appear that leaves are in whorls of 5-8; undivided, untoothed, unstalked, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 8-12 mm long, fine pointed leaf-tip, margin hairs minute, with the hairs half way along the margin pointing forwards towards the leaf-tip; 1-veined.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, in compound long and loose axillary and terminal cymes; sepals absent or minute; petals 4, fused into tube below, with 4 lobes with a point greater than 0.2 mm long, corolla 3 mm across, tube shorter than lobes; stamens 4-5, attached at the top of corolla tube; ovary inferior, 2-celled.
Fruits: 2 fused and later separated 1-seeded nutlets; smooth, 2 mm across.
Habitat: Grassland and banks.Distribution: Rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No