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Galium circaezans (licorice bedstraw)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Galium circaezans, common name licorice bedstraw, 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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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Flies, Beetles, Bats
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  A red dye is obtained from the root; The plant is used as a stuffing material for mattresses etc;
Height [1]  18 inches (0.45 m)
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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4Evaluating Diet Composition of Pronghorn in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, CHRISTOPHER N. JACQUES, JARET D. SIEVERS, JONATHAN A. JENKS, CHAD L. SEXTON, and DANIEL E. RODDY, The Prairie Naturalist 38(4): December 2006, pp. 239-250
♦ 5HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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