Galium uliginosum

Marsh bedstraw ( Galium uliginosum )

The bog bedstraw ( Galium uliginosum ) is a plant of the family Rubiaceae ( Rubiaceae ).

Features

The bog bedstraw is a perennial herbaceous plant that growth heights of 10 to 30, rarely up to 60 centimeters reached. The stem is rough, bare square and lying to ascending. Most six to eight, rarely five leaves are borne in whorls. The leaves are linear - lanceolate, bright bespitzt, evergreen and at the edge backwards rough.

The flowers are wider than the ripe fruit, have a diameter of 2.5 to 3 millimeters and are white. The stamens are yellow. The fruit is 1 millimeter wide, fine-grained and coarse - papillose.

The flowering period extends from May to September.

The chromosome number is n = 11.22.

Occurrence

The bog bedstraw is base hold and settled fens, wet meadows and shores up to altitudes of 1800 meters. Its area extends over Europe and Siberia. In Central Europe, this species is widespread.

Documents

• Siegmund Seybold: Flora of Germany and neighboring countries. A book to determine the often wild and cultured vascular plants. Founded by Otto Schmeil, Jost hinge plates. 93 fully revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2006, ISBN 3-494-01413-2.
• Eckhart J. Jäger, Klaus Werner ( eds.): Excursion Flora of Germany. Founded by Werner Roth painter. 10, revised edition. Volume 4: Vascular Plants: Critical band, Elsevier, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich / Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1496-2.