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§1 Plant

Galium hispidulum Michx.

vernacular coastal bedstraw — species · Rubiaceae


USDA
GAHI
GBIF
8208975 syn.
Rank
species
coastal bedstraw (Galium hispidulum)
Platephotograph · Io Hennessy source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Rubiaceae Juss.
Genus
Galium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 103 counties across 11 states/territories
Legend Native · 103 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 103 counties across 11 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 4 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 43 N
Georgia view state ↗ 11 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 5 N
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 4 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 10 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 18 N
Virginia view state ↗ 4 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/GAHI ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/8208975 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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