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§1 Plant

Galium lanceolatum Torr.

vernacular lanceleaf wild licorice — species · Rubiaceae


USDA
GALA3
GBIF
2913903
Rank
species
lanceleaf wild licorice (Galium lanceolatum)
Platephotograph · Alison Smith 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

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 356 counties across 19 states/territories
Legend Native · 356 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 356 counties across 19 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N
Indiana view state ↗ 10 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 18 N
Maine view state ↗ 7 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 10 N
Michigan view state ↗ 50 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 N
New York view state ↗ 38 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 N
Ohio view state ↗ 40 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 62 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 9 N
Vermont view state ↗ 12 N
Virginia view state ↗ 21 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 17 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 30 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/GALA3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2913903 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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