Common name:
Wall bedstraw
Family:
Scientific name:
Galium parisiense
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered locations in south/central England, and south Wales
Height:
Up to 40 cm
Habitat:
Pavements, old walls, sand dunes
Flowers:
Tiny, around 0.5 mm in diameter; four white petals, reddish underneath, and four green sepals. In small, open clusters, from the leaf nodes
Leaves:
Whorled, narrow, short (up to 10 mm), with a bristle at the tip and tiny, forwards-pointing prickles along the margin. On slender, branched stems which are square in cross-section, with downwards bristles along the four edges
Season:
June to July
Rarity:
★★★★★
