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Photographer: Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Family Rubiaceae
Galium concinnum Torr. & A.Gray
pretty bedstraw, shining bedstraw
Galium: from Greek word gala, "milk," and alluding to the fact that certain species were used to curdle milk
concinnum: concinnus for "skillfully put together; beautiful, elegant"
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect to sprawling, perennial, 5"-24" tall forb, with many branches |
| Flower: | white, 4-parted, 1/8" wide; inflorescence a 2-3 times-branched cluster either terminal or spreading from the leaf axils; blooms June-Aug. |
| Fruit: | smooth |
| Leaf: | whorls of 6 leaves on the main stem and whorls of 4 on the branches, mostly rough edged, linear, and sharply pointed |
| Habitat: | dry; woods |
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