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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : galal

Scientific name: Galium mollugo subsp. erectum Syme


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Galium album Miller, Galium erectum Hudson.

Classification: Rubiaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: upright hedge-bedstraw

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country:DE : Weißes Labkraut ; ES : amor del hortelano blanco ; FR : gaillet blanc ; IT : caglio bianco ; PT : pegamassa-branca ; EN : upright hedge-bedstraw ;

Biological type: Perennial


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling:

- Plant propagates mostly vegetatively (rhizomes...); establishment from seedling is rare.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 50-150 cm, spreading or ascending, 4-angled, with a rapid lengthening, smooth, slightly swollen at the nodes.

- Leaves : 4-5 leaves in the first whorl, then 6-8 in later whorls. Leaves relatively short, oblong or lanceolate -linear, mucronate, thick, only one very prominent vein on the back.

- Flowers white, small (3mm), very numerous in cyme. Cyme relatively narrow, oblong, slightly dense, with more or less erect branches. Corolla with awned lobes.

- Fruit on erect pedicel, relatively big, glabrous, 2-celled, punctate.

- Plant used in the past as cheese-rennet. A dye was extracted from rhizomes.

- Rare in crops.

- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with the other species of Galium except Galium aparine L. (hooking plant).

- Biological type: Perennial.

Mistake with: Galium


Ecological profile (click on flags): France   Rare     Portugal  Rare    

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