Galium verum
L. Lady's BedstrawErect or ascending stoloniferous perennial; stems coarse,to 120 cm long, with abundant weak tangled hairs 0.1–0.3 mm long, becoming glabrescent with age. Leaves and stipules sessile, c. equal, mostly in whorls of 6 or 8, narrow-linear, 10–20 mm long, 0.4–1 mm wide, narrowly acute with a minute hyaline extension and a smaller terminal hair, upper surface with scattered minute antrorse prickles, lower surface glabrous except for pubescent midrib sides; margins revolute to midrib. Inflorescences paniculate, many-flowered; pedicels c. 1 mm long. Corolla 3–4 mm diam., golden-yellow. Fruit globose, 1–1.2 mm long; mericarps broad-ellipsoid, touching one another, maturing black, smooth, glabrous. Flowers summer.
GipP. Also Tas (sparingly established). Native to northern Africa, Asia, and Europe. Collected once in Victoria in 1948 from Kongwak, South Gippsland.
