§1 Plant
Galium verum L.
vernacular Yellow Spring bedstraw — species · Rubiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Vine
- 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
§2b
County-level range
· 183 counties across 19 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 183 counties across 19 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 34 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Franklin 36033
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Franklin 42055
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 13 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GAVE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/9063248 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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