Galium suecicum

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Swedish bedstraw
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Galium
Species:
G. suecicum
Binomial name
Galium suecicum
(Sterner) Ehrend.
Synonyms [1]

Galium pumilum subsp. suecicumSterner in C.A.M.Lindman

Galium suecicum or Swedish bedstraw is a plant species of the Rubiaceae. [2] [3] It is native to central and southern Sweden, and has also been collected in Germany. [1]

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Galium is a large genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Rubiaceae, occurring in the temperate zones of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Some species are informally known as bedstraw.

<i>Galium odoratum</i> Species of plant

Galium odoratum, the sweetscented bedstraw, is a flowering perennial plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to much of Europe from Spain and Ireland to Russia, as well as Western Siberia, Turkey, Iran, the Caucasus, China and Japan. It is also sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in the United States and Canada. It is widely cultivated for its flowers and its sweet-smelling foliage.

<i>Galium verum</i> Species of plant

Galium verum is a herbaceous perennial plant of the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread across most of Europe, North Africa, and temperate Asia from Palestine, Lebanon and Turkey to Japan and Kamchatka. It is naturalized in Tasmania, New Zealand, Canada, and the northern half of the United States. It is considered a noxious weed in some places.

<i>Galium triflorum</i> Species of plant

Galium triflorum is a herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread in northern Europe, eastern Asia and North America. The plant is considered a noxious weed in New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

<i>Galium album</i> Species of plant

Galium album, the white bedstraw or hedge bedstraw, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae.

<i>Galium mollugo</i> Species of plant

Galium mollugo, common name hedge bedstraw or false baby's breath, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae. It shares the name hedge bedstraw with the related European species, Galium album.

<i>Galium palustre</i> Species of plant

Galium palustre, the common marsh bedstraw or simply marsh-bedstraw, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae. This plant is widely distributed, native to virtually every country in Europe, plus Morocco, the Azores, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Western Siberia, Greenland, eastern Canada, St. Pierre & Miquelon, and parts of the United States. The species is classified as a noxious weed in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. It is considered naturalized in Kamchatka, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina.

<i>Galium uliginosum</i> Species of plant

Galium uliginosum or fen bedstraw is a plant species of the genus Galium. It is widespread across most of Europe as well as Morocco, Western Siberia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Xinjiang. It is reportedly naturalized in New Zealand, Greenland and the Crozet Islands.

<i>Galium boreale</i> Species of flowering plant

Galium boreale or northern bedstraw is a plant species of the Rubiaceae. It is widespread over the temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America including most of Canada and the northern United States.

<i>Galium saxatile</i> Species of plant

Galium saxatile or heath bedstraw is a plant species of the genus Galium. It is related to cleavers.

Galium sterneri or limestone bedstraw is a plant species of the Rubiaceae. It is native to northern Europe.

<i>Galium aparine</i> Species of flowering plant

Galium aparine with many common names including hitchhikers, cleavers, clivers, bedstraw, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, sticky bob, stickybud, stickyback, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willy, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, grip grass, sticky grass, bobby buttons, whippysticks and velcro plant, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae.

Galium oelandicum is a species of plants in the Rubiaceae. It is endemic to the island of Öland in Sweden, in the Baltic Sea. The plant has showy displays of pretty white flowers.

Galium rubioides is a species of plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to Europe and Asia. Natural distribution is from Austria and Croatia east to Russia and Turkey, plus the Caucasus, Western Siberia, Kazakhstan, northern China and the Amur region of Russia. The species is also reportedly naturalized in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Galium glaucophyllum, the Sardinian bedstraw, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean.

Galium montis-arerae, the Pizzo Arera bedstraw, is a rare plant species in the Rubiaceae. It is named after the mountain called Pizzo Arera, in the Bergamo Alps of Lombardia region in northern Italy. It is found only in the range from Monte Pegherolo to Concarena in Bergamasque Prealps.

<i>Galium noricum</i> Species of plant

Galium noricum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to the eastern Alps of Austria, Slovenia, Bavaria and northern Italy. The species is named for the ancient Roman Province of Noricum, which included most of present-day Austria and much of Slovenia.

Galium paschale is a species of flowering plant in the genus Galium found in south-eastern Europe and Turkey.

Taraxacum suecicum is a species of plants belonging to the family Asteraceae.

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Ehrendorfer, Friedrich. 1960. Österreische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse. Sitzungsberichte. Abteilung 1. Biologie 169: 417, Galium suecicum
  3. C.A.M.Lindman. 1926. Svensk fanerogamflora ed 2, 507 Galium pumilum subsp. suecicum