Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : galal
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
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- Plant propagates mostly vegetatively (rhizomes...); establishment from seedling is rare.
- 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):
Rare
Rare
