Common name:
Lady's bedstraw
Family:
Scientific name:
Galium verum
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK; absent only from moorland and mountainous regions
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Dry, grassy places
Flowers:
Tiny; around 3 mm in diameter, with four pointed yellow petals, in a cross-shape. Flowers are arranged in dense, leafy, terminal clusters
Leaves:
Linear, narrow, hairless, up to 25 mm long, with a short spike at the tip and a single vein along the middle. In whorls of between eight and 12
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
