English > bedstraw: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of several plants of the genus Galium. |
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| Member of | Galium, genus Galium | Annual or perennial herbs |
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| Narrower | Northern bedstraw, Northern snow bedstraw, Galium boreale | North American stoloniferous perennial having white flowers |
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| cleavers, clivers, goose grass, catchweed, spring cleavers, Galium aparine | Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles |
| sweet woodruff, waldmeister, woodruff, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, Asperula odorata | Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets |
| wild licorice, Galium lanceolatum | bedstraw with sweetish roots |
| wild madder, white madder, white bedstraw, infant's-breath, false baby's breath, Galium mollugo | Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers |
| yellow bedstraw, yellow cleavers, Our Lady's bedstraw, Galium verum | Common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
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| Spanish | bedstraw, cuajaleche |
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| Catalan | bedstraw |
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