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Photographer: Paul Drobot
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Family Rubiaceae
Galium aparine L.
annual bedstraw, cleavers, goose-grass, sticky-willy
Galium: from Greek word gala, "milk," and alluding to the fact that certain species were used to curdle milk
aparine: Greek name for the plant called cleavers, scratching
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | scrambling annual, 4"-40" tall forb, usually only a few branches; stems weak, 4 -angled, with fine, clinging hooks; from a short taproot |
| Flower: | white to greenish, tiny, 4-parted; inflorescence a stalked, usually 3-5 flowered cluster from the leaf axils; blooms May-June |
| Fruit: | ball-like, bristly |
| Leaf: | whorls of usually 6, narrow, hairy leaflets |
| Habitat: | mostly shade; moist rich woods |
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