Galium latifolium

Purple bedstraw
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Asterids
Order:Gentianales
Family:Rubiaceae
Genus:Galium
Species: G. latifolium
Binomial name
Galium latifolium
Michx. 1803 not Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don 1825

Galium latifolium (purple bedstraw) is a North American species of plants in the madder family.[1] It is native to eastern North America, primarily the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania to Alabama. There are also a few lowland populations in eastern Maryland and eastern South Carolina.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Michaux, André. 1803. Flora Boreali-Americana 1: 79.
  2. ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map


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