Asperula pusilla

Tufted erect or decumbent perennial, with slender and creeping rhizomes; stems slender, to 10 cm long, scabrous with spreading or recurved hairs. Leaves and stipules sessile, c. equal, in whorls of 6(–8), linear to linear-oblanceo-late, mostly 2–8 mm long and to 1.5 mm wide, often lustrous, obtuse or broadly acute, surfaces scabrous-pubescent, hairs mostly confined to midrib below, margins recurved. Inflorescences terminal and upper-axillary cymes, mostly 1–3-flowered, c. as long as leaves. Corolla c. 3 mm long on male flowers, c. 2 mm long on females, white or pinkish; corolla-tube usually shorter than lobes. Fruit scarcely 2-lobed; mericarps subglobose, 1.5–2.5 mm diam., rugose, brown to black. Flowers Oct.–Mar.