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Photographer: Andrew Hipp
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Family Rubiaceae
Galium trifidum L. subsp. trifidum
northern three-lobed bedstraw, small bedstraw
Galium: from Greek word gala, "milk," and alluding to the fact that certain species were used to curdle milk
trifidum: cleft into three parts (Galium trifidum)
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect to sprawling, perennial forb, with many stems and branches scrambling over other vegetation; stems nodes not obviously bearded |
| Flower: | whitish, tiny, 3-parted, lobes as wide or wider than long; stalks greater than 1/4"; many clusters of usually 1-3 flowers both terminal and from the leaf axils; blooms June-Aug. |
| Fruit: | smooth |
| Leaf: | whorls mostly of 4, linear to elliptical with a blunt tip |
| Habitat: | moist |
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