bedstraw
Noun
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is a type of: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pestssubtypes:
- asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, waldmeister, woodruff - Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula
- galium boreale, northern bedstraw, northern snow bedstraw - North American stoloniferous perennial having white flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental
- galium verum, our lady's bedstraw, yellow bedstraw, yellow cleavers - common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia
- galium lanceolatum, wild licorice - bedstraw with sweetish roots
- catchweed, cleavers, clivers, galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers - annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
- false baby's breath, galium mollugo, infant's-breath, white bedstraw, white madder, wild madder - Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America
belongs to: galium, genus galium - annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers
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