Galium murale is a hispid annual that reaches up to 5-20 cm long with slender stems, which are mainly from the base. Leaves are1-8 x 1 mm, oblong-lanceolate flat with mucronate apex and tapering base with margin possessing stiff hairs pointing upwards; leaves are produced in whorls of 4 or opposite. Flowers are with yellow corolla and arranged in 1-3- flowered cymes. The fruit is of 1.5-2 mm, 2-lobed cylindrical mericarps, which become arcuate when ripe, with spreading hooked hairs.
Mareotic Sector.
Mediterranean region, Sinai
Stony hillsides
Annual
Height: 5-20 cm
Galium murale is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names small goosegrass,[1] yellow wall bedstraw[2] and tiny bedstraw. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin of southern Europe and northern Africa, and the Middle East from Turkey and the Caucasus east to Iran and south to Saudi Arabia and Somalia. It is also considered native to the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores. It is naturalised in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile and California.[3][4][5]
Galium murale is an annual herb producing upright stems just a few centimeters long lined with whorls of 4 to 6 oval-shaped leaves not more than about 3 millimeters long each. Flowers appear singly or in pairs in the leaf axils. Each is about a millimeter wide and greenish to greenish-yellow. The fruit is a tiny nutlet coated in hooked hairs.[6][7][8]
Galium murale is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names small goosegrass, yellow wall bedstraw and tiny bedstraw. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin of southern Europe and northern Africa, and the Middle East from Turkey and the Caucasus east to Iran and south to Saudi Arabia and Somalia. It is also considered native to the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores. It is naturalised in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile and California.
Galium murale is an annual herb producing upright stems just a few centimeters long lined with whorls of 4 to 6 oval-shaped leaves not more than about 3 millimeters long each. Flowers appear singly or in pairs in the leaf axils. Each is about a millimeter wide and greenish to greenish-yellow. The fruit is a tiny nutlet coated in hooked hairs.
