Galium divaricatum

Spreading annual; stems fine, to c. 30 cm long, becoming wiry and slightly woody at base, glabrous or with a few minute prickles. Leaves and stipules subsessile, c. equal, in whorls of 6–8 below, decreasing to 2 on flowering branches, linear to oblanceolate, 3–10 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, acute and often mucronate, surfaces more or less glabrous, margins with tiny antrorse prickles. Inflorescences 3–12-flowered; peduncles mostly 10–15 mm long; pedicels mostly 2–5 mm long. Corolla 0.4–0.7 mm diam., yellow, tinged red. Fruit subglobose, 0.4–0.8 mm long; mericarps reniform, touching one another, covered with tubercles or papillae. Flowers Sep.–Jan.