Shrubby Bedstraw, Multi-flowered Bedstraw
Galium multiflorum
Synonyms: Galium glabrescens, Galium glabrescens ssp. glabrescens, Galium glabrescens ssp. harticum, Galium glabrescens ssp. josephinense, Galium grayanum ssp. glabrescens, Galium watsonii ssp. watsonii
The photo above shows the upper stem and fruits of shrubby bedstraw as seen along the interpretive trail in Blue Basin at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in central Oregon...........May 28, 2007. Note the long, straight hairs arising from the fruits.
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The photo above shows a close-up of the axillary flowers of shrubby bedstraw as seen along the interpretive trail in Blue Basin at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in central Oregon...........May 28, 2007.
Many-flowered bedstraw as observed along the Steelhead Falls Trail, Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area (BLM).......April 25, 2018.
Shrubby bedstraw as seen on a steep, gravelly slope of serpentine along the Canyon Mountain Trail #218, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness..........August 19, 2011.
The photo above shows a grainy close-up of the flowers and upper stem of shrubby bestraw as seen along US Highway 2 in Grant County, central Washington...........May 3, 1998. Note the long, straight hairs arising from the fruits.
The photo above shows the erect stem and some of the numerous, axillary flowers of shrubby bedstraw as seen along Pike Creek on the eastern slopes of the Steens Mt. in southeastern Oregon...........June 18, 2004. Typically, this species has a woody base with numerous erect stems crowded together.
The photo above shows the hairy fruits
of shrubby bedstraw as seen along Pike Creek on the eastern slopes of the Steens Mt. in southeastern Oregon..........June
18, 2004.
Paul Slichter