Common name:
Hedge bedstraw
Family:
Scientific name:
Galium mollugo
Main flower color:
Range:
England, Wales and the southern half of Scotland
Height:
Up to 100 cm
Habitat:
Dry grassland, hedgerows, especially on calcareous soils
Flowers:
The corolla, 3 mm in diameter, has four white lobes, sharply pointed at the tips. Flowers form large, open, branched clusters, with whorled, leaf-like bracts at the junctions
Leaves:
Up to 25 mm long, and fairly broad, with a single vein, a weak spine at the tip and forwards-pointing bristles along the margins. In closely-spaced whorls of six to eight along the hairless, square stems
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
