Common name:
Slender marsh bedstraw
Family:
Scientific name:
Galium constrictum
Synonym:
Galium debile
Main flower color:
Range:
A small number of locations in Ireland and southern England. Most common in the New Forest
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Damp grassland, margins of bogs and pools
Flowers:
Around 3 mm in diameter - four pure white petals, four stamens with white filaments and brownish anthers, one pistil and four small green sepals. In open, branched clusters, attached by hairless pedicels
Leaves:
Whorled (four to six), narrow, linear, one-veined, rounded at the tip, lined by very short, forwards-pointing marginal prickles. On stems which are square in cross-section and almost smooth, with only a few very short bristles
Season:
May to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
