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§1 Plant
Galium mollugo L.
vernacular false baby's breath — species · Rubiaceae
§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 Introduced
- GL Greenland Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 301 counties across 22 states/territories§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 301 counties across 22 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 38 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chenango 36017
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
North Carolina view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 40 I ▾
- Adams 39001
- Ashland 39005
- Athens 39009
- Auglaize 39011
- Carroll 39019
- Columbiana 39029
- Coshocton 39031
- Crawford 39033
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Darke 39037
- Delaware 39041
- Erie 39043
- Fayette 39047
- Franklin 39049
- Geauga 39055
- Greene 39057
- Harrison 39067
- Holmes 39075
- Jackson 39079
- Knox 39083
- Lake 39085
- Lawrence 39087
- Mahoning 39099
- Morrow 39117
- Noble 39121
- Ottawa 39123
- Paulding 39125
- Pickaway 39129
- Portage 39133
- Ross 39141
- Seneca 39147
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Vinton 39163
- Washington 39167
- Wayne 39169
- Williams 39171
- Wood 39173
- Wyandot 39175
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 46 I ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bland 51021
- Botetourt 51023
- Clarke 51043
- Craig 51045
- Floyd 51063
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Highland 51091
- Lee 51105
- Loudoun 51107
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Patrick 51141
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Russell 51167
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Tazewell 51185
- Warren 51187
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 13 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GAMO ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/9039392 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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