Common name:
Common marsh bedstraw
Family:
Scientific name:
Galium palustre
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the British Isles
Height:
Up to 80 cm
Habitat:
Damp places, usually in or near water
Flowers:
Around 3 mm across, with four white petals, in loose, pyramidal clusters, with long, spreading branches. Flowers are subtended by leaf-like bracts
Leaves:
Narrowly oblanceolate, up to 35 mm long, one-veined, not bristle-tipped. Lined by tiny, backwards-pointing bristles. In whorls of four to six, on stems which are square in cross-section and hairless, though (usually) rather rough
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
