Common name:
Cleavers
Family:
Scientific name:
Galium aparine
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK
Height:
Up to 100 cm; a climber or creeper, using other plants for support
Habitat:
Damp woodland, waste ground, fields, hedgerows, beach margins
Flowers:
Very small, 2 mm in diameter, with four greenish-white petals in a cross-shape. Flowers are produced in small numbers (up to five) at the upper leaf nodes
Leaves:
Oblanceolate, spine-tipped, up to 2 cm long, with a single vein, and backwards-pointing marginal bristles. In whorls of six to eight along the square stem, which also has backwards bristles
Season:
May to September
Rarity:
★★★★★