Galium album

White bedstraw ( Galium album )

The White bedstraw ( Galium album ) is a plant of the family Rubiaceae ( Rubiaceae ). It is very common in Central Europe and mainly grows in rich pastures and Halbruderalstandorten.

Features

The White bedstraw is a perennial herbaceous plant, a Hemikryptophyt and reaches heights of growth from 30 to 100 cm. It forms deep roots. The stems are decumbent to ascending, thin, delicate and square. Barbed bristles on the stem missing. The leaves are einaderig or only indistinctly veined, linear and three to six times as long as wide. You are suddenly narrowed into the short spike tip and stand in whorls at 4 to 10 leaves.

The flower stalks are not as fine as hair and 1 to 3 mm long. The crown is white, 3 to 4 mm wide, with no significant tube. The corolla lobes are not sharpened evenly and carry a fine, patch spike tip. Bloom time is from June to September, the pollination is mainly provided by (Diptera ). The flowers are protandrous.

The dried fruit is divided into two part -seeded fruit is wrinkled and slightly ovoid. The fruit stalks are at an acute angle to the axis, whereby the fruit stand appears crowded.

The chromosome number is 2n = 44, the species is tetraploid.

Dissemination and locations

The White bedstraw is located in the oceanic toned areas of Eurasia.

It grows in meadows, dry grassland, in thickets and dry forests hemming, along roadsides and rubbish points and is preferably present in a rather dry to fresh, nutrient-rich soils. Galium album rises to the montane altitudinal zone and comes to 2100 m before. It is a characteristic species of the association of valley - rich meadows ( Arrhenaterion elatioris ), but also occurs in several other associations and classes, so the Trifolion medii, Mesobromion, Thlaspietea rotundifolii, Alno Ulmion minoris and Quercetalia pubescenti - petraeae.

System

Within the genus Labkräuter ( Galium ) belongs to the White bedstraw Galium species group mollugo agg. = Galium water. Erecta.

From Galium album a clan is separated as a separate species, formerly included as subspecies: Thick meadows bedstraw ( Galium pycnotrichum, Syn Galium album subsp pycnotrichum. ).

Documents

In addition to the sources listed in the detailed records of the products based on the following documents:

• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil Fitschen - interactive ( CD -Rom ), Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2001/2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6