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§1 Plant
Galium virgatum Nutt.
vernacular southwestern bedstraw — species · Rubiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Rubiaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Galium
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 170 counties across 9 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 170 counties across 9 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 46 N ▾
- Barry 29009
- Barton 29011
- Bates 29013
- Benton 29015
- Boone 29019
- Camden 29029
- Carroll 29033
- Cedar 29039
- Christian 29043
- Cole 29051
- Cooper 29053
- Dade 29057
- Dallas 29059
- Franklin 29071
- Gasconade 29073
- Greene 29077
- Hickory 29085
- Howell 29091
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Laclede 29105
- Lawrence 29109
- Lincoln 29113
- Marion 29127
- McDonald 29119
- Miller 29131
- Monroe 29137
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Osage 29151
- Ozark 29153
- Perry 29157
- Pettis 29159
- Polk 29167
- Randolph 29175
- Reynolds 29179
- Ripley 29181
- Shannon 29203
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Ste. Genevieve 29186
- Stone 29209
- Taney 29213
- Texas 29215
- Washington 29221
- Webster 29225
Oklahoma view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Bryan 40013
- Carter 40019
- Cherokee 40021
- Choctaw 40023
- Cleveland 40027
- Comanche 40031
- Garvin 40049
- Harmon 40057
- Jefferson 40067
- Johnston 40069
- Kingfisher 40073
- Lincoln 40081
- Major 40093
- Marshall 40095
- McClain 40087
- Murray 40099
- Muskogee 40101
- Oklahoma 40109
- Pontotoc 40123
- Sequoyah 40135
- Stephens 40137
- Tillman 40141
- Tulsa 40143
- Washington 40147
Tennessee view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 64 N ▾
- Archer 48009
- Atascosa 48013
- Bandera 48019
- Bastrop 48021
- Blanco 48031
- Brewster 48043
- Calhoun 48057
- Callahan 48059
- Cameron 48061
- Clay 48077
- Collin 48085
- Crockett 48105
- Dallas 48113
- Edwards 48137
- Erath 48143
- Foard 48155
- Galveston 48167
- Gillespie 48171
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Hamilton 48193
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hill 48217
- Hunt 48231
- Jefferson 48245
- Jim Wells 48249
- Johnson 48251
- Kaufman 48257
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- Lamb 48279
- Limestone 48293
- Live Oak 48297
- Madison 48313
- Marion 48315
- McLennan 48309
- Montague 48337
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Parker 48367
- Pecos 48371
- Polk 48373
- Presidio 48377
- Randall 48381
- Reagan 48383
- Real 48385
- Robertson 48395
- Rockwall 48397
- Sabine 48403
- San Patricio 48409
- Schleicher 48413
- Shackelford 48417
- Starr 48427
- Sutton 48435
- Tarrant 48439
- Taylor 48441
- Travis 48453
- Tyler 48457
- Val Verde 48465
- Walker 48471
- Williamson 48491
- Zapata 48505
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/GAVI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2914123 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
fetched 2026-05-26T13:12:28Z