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 obtusum var. obtusum   FAMILY Rubiaceae   Go to FSUS key

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium obtusum ssp. obtusum   FAMILY Rubiaceae

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

Galium obtusum ssp. obtusum

INCLUDING (NOT VALIDLY PUBLISHED) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Galium obtusum ssp. australe

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Galium obtusum ssp. obtusum

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Galium obtusum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-011a:

Galium obtusum var. obtusum   FAMILY Rubiaceae

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

Galium tinctorium

 

COMMON NAME:
 Bluntleaf Bedstraw

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

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Galium obtusum ssp. obtusum   FAMILY Rubiaceae

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

INCLUDING (NOT VALIDLY PUBLISHED) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
 Galium obtusum ssp. australe

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
 Galium obtusum ssp. obtusum

INCLUDED WITHIN Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
 Galium obtusum

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 173-10-011a:
 Galium obtusum var. obtusum   FAMILY Rubiaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3361

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: marshes, swamps, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in GA Mountains (uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Simple
Whorls of 4 (rarely 5-6)
Margins entire

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

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Black

 

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