Plant ID

ParkPacks · Thu Jul 16, 2015 7:13 pm

Hello! I am under the belief that this is Nothern BedStraw. I would like to make sure that I am right. Let me know what you think!

Mr_bobo_ · Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:44 pm

I would say by flower Galium mollugo

rainbowgardener · Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:55 am

OK, Mr. Bobo, you piqued my curiosity. Gallium mollugo would be hedge bedstraw; northern bedstraw would be gallium boreale. I looked at descriptions and pictures of both and they seem nearly indistiguishable. On what basis did you decide from one somewhat blurry picture that this is the mollugo rather than the boreale? (Not questioning that you are right, you almost always are

, just wondering how you figured it out.)

ParkPacks · Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:24 pm

Does is help if I tell you this is growing in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada? By the Saskatchewan river in a fairly wooded area?

Mr_bobo_ · Sat Jul 18, 2015 3:43 pm

rainbowgardener wrote:OK, Mr. Bobo, you piqued my curiosity. Gallium mollugo would be hedge bedstraw; northern bedstraw would be gallium boreale. I looked at descriptions and pictures of both and they seem nearly indistiguishable. On what basis did you decide from one somewhat blurry picture that this is the mollugo rather than the boreale? (Not questioning that you are right, you almost always are , just wondering how you figured it out.)

We have lot of Galiums here in Croatia, and lot of Gallium mollugo.
Well, with my experience from U.S. I learn that gecnus I can recognize very good, but second name for native plants or american varieties - I can go wrong there...
...so I would not reject option that this is Gallium boreale. They look very similar. (I have both in my herbarium, and boreale have a bit longer leaves)
It is tricky with native plants, which are specific for some area.