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Galium aparine (stickywilly)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Galium aparine, with many common names including cleavers, clivers, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, 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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Infraspecies

Galium aparine aparine
Galium aparine spurium
Galium aparine var. aparine
Galium aparine var. microphyllum
Galium aparine var. minus

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Blue-Green
Flower Color [2]  Green
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown
Bloom Period [2]  Mid Spring
Dispersal Mode [5]  Anemochory, Zoochory
Drought Tolerance [2]  None
Fire Tolerance [2]  None
Frost Free Days [2]  60 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Spring
Growth Form [2]  Single Crown
Growth Period [2]  Spring
Growth Rate [2]  Rapid
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [3]  Annual
Propagation [2]  Seed
Root Depth [2]  3.937 inches (10 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Moderate
Seed Vigor [2]  Medium
Seeds Per [2]  499999 / lb (1102310 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Decumbent
Structure [6]  Herb
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Height [3]  4.92 feet (1.5 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 12 Low Temperature: 50 F° (10 C°) → 55 F° (12.8 C°)
Light Preference [4]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Rich
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist
Water Use [2]  High
Screening - Summer [2]  Porous
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Melanostoma scalare[9]
Parasyrphus annulatus[9]
Parasyrphus lineolus[9]
Synanthedon myopaeformis[9]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces riedlianus[9]
Neoerysiphe galii[7]
Peronospora aparines[7]
Puccinia difformis[7]
Puccinia punctata[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
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♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
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♦ 6Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Spermophilus lateralis, Molly A. Bartels and Doug P. Thompson, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 440, pp. 1-8 (1993)
♦ 9Ecology of Commanster
♦ 10Food plants and feeding habits of Himalayan ungulates, Anjali Awasthi, Sanjay Kr. Uniyal, Gopal S. Rawat and S. Sathyakumar, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 85, NO. 6, 25 SEPTEMBER 2003
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0