Scientific name: Galium odoratum Scop.
Common name: Woodruff
Description
Habit: Perennial, to 45 cm high.
Stems: Erect, hairless, 4-angled.
Leaves: Opposite, with several leafy and large stipules per leaf making it appear that leaves are in whorls of 6-8; undivided, untoothed, unstalked, oblong-lanceolate, leaf-tip with a short point, margin hairs spreading to forward pointing at the middle of the margin; 1-veined.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, in compound terminal cymes; sepals absent or minute; petals 4, fused into tube below, with 4 lobes, corolla funnel-shaped, 4-5 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; covered with hooked bristles, 1.5 mm across.
Habitat: Woods, damp and shady places.Distribution: Occasional.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No