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§1 Plant
Galium palustre L.
vernacular common marsh bedstraw — 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 Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 147 counties across 13 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 147 counties across 13 states/territories.
Maine view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Allegan 26005
- Alpena 26007
- Benzie 26019
- Berrien 26021
- Charlevoix 26029
- Chippewa 26033
- Delta 26041
- Emmet 26047
- Houghton 26061
- Isabella 26073
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Keweenaw 26083
- Leelanau 26089
- Luce 26095
- Mackinac 26097
- Marquette 26103
- Muskegon 26121
- Newaygo 26123
- Ontonagon 26131
- Ottawa 26139
- Presque Isle 26141
- Schoolcraft 26153
- Washtenaw 26161
Montana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Genesee 36037
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Rensselaer 36083
- Saratoga 36091
- Schoharie 36095
- Schuyler 36097
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Bradford 42015
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Crawford 42039
- Erie 42049
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Potter 42105
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Wyoming 42131
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 14 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 3 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GAPA3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2913130 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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