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Photographer: Robert W. Freckmann
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Family Rubiaceae
Galium lanceolatum Torr.
lance-leaved wild licorice, wild licorice
Galium: from Greek word gala, "milk," and alluding to the fact that certain species were used to curdle milk
lanceolatum: lance-shaped
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect to drooping, perennial, 12"-28" tall forb, branched from the base; stems mostly smooth |
| Flower: | white, turning purple with age, 4-parted, smooth, pointed lobes; inflorescence a widely spreading cluster with 1-3 branches; blooms June-July |
| Fruit: | bristly |
| Leaf: | whorls of 4, thin, lower elliptical, the upper lance-like with a long pointed tip and widest below the middle |
| Habitat: | dry; woods, thickets |
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