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§1 Plant
Galium boreale L.
vernacular northern bedstraw — species · Rubiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rubiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Galium
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- GL Greenland Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 199 counties across 14 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 85 min.
- Precipitation
- 20–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–7.2
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- Yes
- Seeds / lb
- 725,760
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Contracting Only
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 199 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 18 N ▾
- Aleutians East 02013
- Anchorage 02020
- Bethel 02050
- Bristol Bay 02060
- Chugach 02063
- Copper River 02066
- Denali 02068
- Dillingham 02070
- Fairbanks North Star 02090
- Kenai Peninsula 02122
- Kodiak Island 02150
- Lake and Peninsula 02164
- Matanuska-Susitna 02170
- Nome 02180
- North Slope 02185
- Northwest Arctic 02188
- Southeast Fairbanks 02240
- Yukon-Koyukuk 02290
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Broadwater 30007
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Dawson 30021
- Fallon 30025
- Fergus 30027
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Garfield 30033
- Glacier 30035
- Golden Valley 30037
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Liberty 30051
- Lincoln 30053
- Madison 30057
- Meagher 30059
- Mineral 30061
- Missoula 30063
- Musselshell 30065
- Park 30067
- Petroleum 30069
- Phillips 30071
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Prairie 30079
- Ravalli 30081
- Richland 30083
- Roosevelt 30085
- Rosebud 30087
- Sanders 30089
- Sheridan 30091
- Silver Bow 30093
- Stillwater 30095
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Valley 30105
- Wheatland 30107
- Yellowstone 30111
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 33 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chenango 36017
- Columbia 36021
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Livingston 36051
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Rensselaer 36083
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schoharie 36095
- Schuyler 36097
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 35 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Jefferson 42065
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mifflin 42087
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Vermont view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 9 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GABO2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2914338 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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