Galium tricornutumDandy Rough-fruited Bedstraw

Galium tricornutumDandy - Rough-fruited Bedstraw

Scientific Description:

Annual, 10−60(−100) cm, with scrambling, flaccid, quadrangular, retrorsely scabrid stems. Leaves in whorls of 6−8, 10−30(−35) × (1.5−)2−4(−8) mm, linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate, long-acuminate, with retrorsely (at apex antrorsely) aculeolate flat margins and midrib, glabrous on both surfaces. Thyrses elongate, axillary cymes l−5(−7)-flowered, usually scarcely longer than leaves, sometimes distinctly longer. Peduncles (5−)8−15(−20) mm; pedicels 1−8 mm, stout and curved downwards and inwards after flowering. Central flowers hermaphrodite, lateral male. Corolla white, cup-shaped, l−2(−2.5) mm diam., with ovate-oblong, acute lobes. Mericarps single or paired, 2.5−5(−6) mm, densely covered with acute verruculae.

Flowering time: April−June(−July).

Habitat: Cultivated and waste ground and other dry, open habitats, 10−1800 m.

Reference:

Ehrendorfer F & Schönbeck-Temesy E (1982). Galium tricornutum Dandy, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 832−833.

Public Description:

Galium tricornutum, commonly known as “rough-frıited bedstraw”, “rough corn bedstraw” or “corn cleavers”, is widespread across most of Europe, northern Africa and southern Asia, from Norway, Portugal and Morocco to China. It is also naturalized in many regions of the world. It is an annual plant with white flowers, and grows up to 100 cm in length. It blooms between April and June and is found in cultivated and waste grounds, dry and open habitats.

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galium_tricornutum/,Accessed date: 30.06.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/search/?q=galium+tricornutum /,Accessed date: 30.06.2016

Karabacak E (2012) Galium L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 821–831.