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Galium verum (Yellow Spring bedstraw; Wirtgen's bedstraw)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Galium verum (lady's bedstraw or yellow bedstraw) is a herbaceous perennial plant of the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread across most of Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia from israel and Turkey to Japan and Kamchatka. It is naturalized in Tasmania, New Zealand, Canada, and the northern half of the United States. It is considered a noxious weed in some places.
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Infraspecies

Galium verum asiaticum
Galium verum glabrescens
Galium verum meridionale
Galium verum var. hallaensis
Galium verum var. verum
Galium verum verum
Galium verum wirtgenii (Attributes)

Attributes

Bee Flower Color [1]  Green
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Height [2]  30 inches (.75 m)
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees
Structure [4]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [3]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry

Protected Areas

Predators

Bruchidius cisti[5]
Halticus macrocephalus[5]
Phenacoccus pumilus (dwarf mealybug)[6]
Strongylocoris leucocephalus[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Neoerysiphe galii[5]
Peronospora galii[5]
Puccinia galii-verni[5]
Puccinia punctata[5]
Pucciniastrum guttatum[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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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