- Source: Galium murale
Galium murale is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names small goosegrass, yellow wall bedstraw and tiny bedstraw. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin of southern Europe and northern Africa, and the Middle East from Turkey and the Caucasus east to Iran and south to Saudi Arabia and Somalia. It is also considered native to the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores. It is naturalised in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile and California.
Galium murale is an annual herb producing upright stems just a few centimeters long lined with whorls of 4 to 6 oval-shaped leaves not more than about 3 millimeters long each. Flowers appear singly or in pairs in the leaf axils. Each is about a millimeter wide and greenish to greenish-yellow. The fruit is a tiny nutlet coated in hooked hairs.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Flora of Western Australia Archived 2011-03-29 at the Wayback Machine
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Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Flora Lebanon
- Galium murale
- Goosegrass
- List of Galium species
- Flora of Lebanon
- Flora of Malta
- List of plants in the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens
- List of flora of Ohio
- List of flora of Indiana
- List of native plants of Flora Palaestina (E–O)
- List of superrosids of Great Britain and Ireland
