Calflora: Galium divaricatum

Galium divaricatum Lam.

Lamarck's bedstraw

Galium divaricatum, a dicot, is an annual herb that is not native to California; it was introduced from elsewhere and naturalized in the wild.

Community:	introduced plant which is becoming naturalized
Elevation:	between 32 and 2296 feet
Family:	RUBIACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Galium found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
(according to)

PLANTS:	Galium anglicum var. parvifolium
PLANTS:	Galium anglicum
PLANTS:	Galium parisiense ssp. anglicum
PLANTS:	Galium parisiense ssp. parvifolium
PLANTS:	Galium parisiense var. anglicum
PLANTS:	Galium parisiense var. divaricatum
PLANTS:	Galium parisiense var. leiocarpum
PLANTS:	Galium parvifolium

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 1 / 1 CCH Butte: 11 / 10 CCH Calaveras: 2 / 2 CCH Contra Costa: 1 / 1 CCH Del Norte: 1 / 1 CCH El Dorado: 4 / 3 CCH Humboldt: 10 / 9 CCH Lake: 1 / 0 CCH Mendocino: 8 / 5 CCH Marin: 7 / 1 CCH Napa: 14 / 11 CCH Nevada: 1 / 0 CCH Sacramento: 1 / 0 CCH San Benito: 1 / 0 CCH Santa Clara: 1 / 0 CCH Santa Cruz: 3 / 1 CCH San Francisco: 1 / 1 CCH Shasta: 2 / 0 CCH San Mateo: 1 / 1 CCH Sonoma: 21 / 14 CCH Trinity: 1 / 1 CCH Yuba: 5 / 5 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Galium divaricatum from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (GADI)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database