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Madder Family
(Family Rubiaceae)
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The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules. The family contains about 13,500 species in 611 genera, which makes it the fourth-largest angiosperm family. Rubiaceae has a cosmopolitan distribution; however, the largest species diversity is concentrated in the (sub)tropics. Ec
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Bedstraws
(Genus Galium)
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Galium is a large genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Rubiaceae, occurring in the temperate zones of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Some species are informally known as bedstraw.
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Catchweed Bedstraw
(Galium aparine)
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Galium aparine, ('aparine' from Greek 'apairo' - “lay hold of” or “seize”) with many common names including cleavers, clivers, "bort", bedstraw, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, stickybud, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willy, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, and grip grass, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae.
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Hedge Bedstraw
(Galium mollugo)
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Galium mollugo, common name hedge bedstraw or false baby's breath, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae. It shares the name hedge bedstraw with the related European species, Galium album.
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Lady's Bedstraw
(Galium verum)
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Galium verum (lady's bedstraw or yellow bedstraw) is a herbaceous perennial plant of the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread across most of Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia from Israel and Turkey to Japan and Kamchatka. It is naturalized in Tasmania, New Zealand, Canada, and the northern half of the United States. It is considered a noxious weed in some places.
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Northern Bedstraw
(Galium boreale)
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Galium boreale or northern bedstraw is a plant species of the Rubiaceae. It is widespread over the temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America including most of Canada and the northern United States.
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Fragrant Bedstraw
(Galium triflorum)
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Galium triflorum (also known as cudweed, sweet-scented bedstraw, and fragrant bedstraw) is a herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread in northern Europe (Scandinavia, Switzerland, Russia, Baltic States), eastern Asia (Kamchatka, Japan, Korea, Guizhou, Sichuan, India, Nepal) and North America (from Alaska and Greenland south to Veracruz). The plant is considered a noxious weed in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Ma
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Bedstraw Hawkmoth
(Hyles gallii)
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Hyles gallii (bedstraw hawk-moth, galium sphinx) is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
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White Bedstraw
(Galium album)
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Galium album, the white bedstraw or hedge bedstraw, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae.
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Common Marsh-Bedstraw
(Galium palustre)
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Galium palustre, the common marsh bedstraw or simply marsh-bedstraw, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae. This plant is widely distributed, native to virtually every country in Europe, plus Morocco, the Azores, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Western Siberia, Greenland, eastern Canada, St. Pierre & Miquelon, and parts of the United States (primarily the Michigan and the Northeast, but with isolated populations in Tennessee, Montana, Washington and Oregon). T
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Taupata
(Coprosma repens)
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Coprosma repens is a species of flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Coprosma, in the family Rubiaceae, native to New Zealand. Common names include tree bedstraw, taupata, mirror bush, looking-glass bush, New Zealand laurel and shiny leaf.
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Licorice Bedstraw
(Galium circaezans)
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Galium circaezans, common name licorice bedstraw or wild licorice, is a plant species in the Rubiaceae. It is native to the eastern half of the United States from the Great Plains to the Atlantic, plus Quebec and Ontario. There are also a few isolated populations in Washington State, probably adventive. The species is classified as a noxious weed in New York and Pennsylvania.
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Narrow-leaved Bedstraw
(Galium angustifolium)
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Galium angustifolium is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name narrowleaf bedstraw. It is native to California (including the Channel Islands) and Baja California, where it is most commonly found at low elevations in the mountains.
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Heath Bedstraw
(Galium saxatile)
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Galium saxatile or heath bedstraw is a plant species of the genus Galium. It is related to cleavers (also known as sticky willy).
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Graceful Bedstraw
(Galium porrigens)
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Galium porrigens is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names graceful bedstraw and climbing bedstraw. It is native to the west coast of North America from Oregon to Baja California.
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Phlox-leaved Bedstraw
(Galium andrewsii)
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Galium andrewsii is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names phloxleaf bedstraw, Andrews' bedstraw, and needlemat galium.
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Fen Bedstraw
(Galium uliginosum)
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Galium uliginosum or fen bedstraw is a plant species of the genus Galium. It is widespread across most of Europe as well as Morocco, Western Siberia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Xinjiang. It is reportedly naturalized in New Zealand, Greenland and the Crozet Islands.
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Shining Bedstraw
(Galium concinnum)
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Galium concinnum, the shining bedstraw, is a plant species in the Rubiaceae. It is native to the Midwestern United States and central Canada, especially the Great Lakes Region and the Valleys of the Ohio, lower Missouri, and upper Mississippi Rivers. The range extends from eastern Oklahoma to eastern Nebraska, north to Ontario and east to Virginia and New York. It is reportedly naturalized in Utah and considered a noxious weed in Pennsylvania.
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Three-petal Bedstraw
(Galium trifidum)
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Galium trifidum is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family, known by the common name threepetal bedstraw. It grows widespread in the arctic, temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere: northern and central Asia (Siberia, the Russian Far East, China, Japan, Kazakhstan), northern and eastern Europe (Scandinavia, France, Austria, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Baltic states) and much of North America (from Greenland and the Aleutians as far south as Oaxaca
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Stiff Marsh Bedstraw
(Galium tinctorium)
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Galium tinctorium, the stiff marsh bedstraw, is a species of plants in the Rubiaceae. It is widespread and common across the eastern part of North America, from Texas to Labrador and from Minnesota to Florida, plus eastern and central Mexico and the Dominican Republic. It is classed as a noxious weed in some parts of the northeastern United States.
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Hairy Bedstraw
(Galium pilosum)
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Galium pilosum, the hairy bedstraw, is a species of plants in the Rubiaceae. It is native to the southern and eastern United States and Canada from Texas to Florida north to Kansas, Michigan, Ontario, Quebec and New Hampshire. There are also isolated populations in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Hispaniola. The plant is classified as a noxious weed in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
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Spreading Bedstraw
(Galium humifusum)
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Galium humifusum (spreading bedstraw) is a plant species in the Rubiaceae. Its native range stretches from the Black Sea region (Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Caucasus) to Iran, Central Asia, Pakistan, Xinjiang, Mongolia and a few smaller countries. The species has also been regarded as a waif in the wild in Washington State in the United States.
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