RUBIACEAE
Galium aparine
Common Names: Cleavers, Bedstraw, Sticky Willy
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| habit--Galium aparine is an annual | leaves, showing fine hook-like hairs--these hairs have little hooks at their tips, much like velcro, and thus G. aparine will stick readily to clothing! What kind of leaf arrangement is present? |
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| leaves again, after a rainstorm | flowers in early Spring--the flowers occur in most of the leaf nodes. How many petals are present? This number is characteristic of the Rubiaceae. |
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