OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Gentianales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Galium circaezans   FAMILY Rubiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium circaezans   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Galium circaezans

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Galium circaezans var. circaezans

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Galium circaezans var. hypomalacum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-004:

Galium circaezans   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Galium circaezans

 

COMMON NAME:
Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw


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image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_gaci2_001_lvd

        

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

JK Marlow    jkm060506_129

May    Anderson County    SC

Clemson Forest

Leaves oval or elliptic, broadest at the middle & blunt at the apex, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmgcircaezans_ocst1

May        

Leaves up to 1.25" long and half as wide, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

Gill Newberry    gn06_g_circaezans_fruits

June        

Leaves ovate to elliptic, acute, sparsely hispidulous [w stiff minute hairs], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

Gill Newberry    gn06_galium_circaezans

June        

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

JK Marlow    jkm120617_952

June    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

JK Marlow    jkm200602_5598

June    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

JK Marlow    jkm200602_5599

June    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

JK Marlow    jkm210619_1406

June    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

JK Marlow    jkm210624_1591

June    Greenville County    SC

Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

JK Marlow    jkm180825_4167

August    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Fruit bristly, dry not fleshy, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

JK Marlow    jkm180825_4169

August    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

image of Galium circaezans, Forest Bedstraw, Licorice Bedstraw

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmgcircaezans_maybeocst

Month Unknown        

Greenish flowers sessile, widely spaced on forked branches in upper axils, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Galium circaezans   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium circaezans   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Galium circaezans

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium circaezans var. circaezans

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Galium circaezans var. hypomalacum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-004:
Galium circaezans   FAMILY Rubiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Galium circaezans

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

588

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Mesic to dry forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Whorls of 4
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellowish-green
Radially symmetrical
Sepals usually obsolete
4-5 lobed rotate corolla
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Black

 

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