Galium verumL.

Lady's Bedstraw

WFO wfo-0000970562 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Galium verum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205253598
Galium verum, photographed by Jonathan Prior
fig. b Jonathan Prior, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205427669
Galium verum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. c Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204869280
Galium verum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205250619
Galium verum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204414526
Galium verum, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. f Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204826289
Galium verum, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. g Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204826646
Galium verum, photographed by Louis Aureglia
fig. h Louis Aureglia, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203953686

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Flowering n = 2,978 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 2,978 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 116 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Asterophyllum galium K.F.Schimp. & Spenn.
  • Galium affine Roth
  • Galium alpinum Schur
  • Galium approximatum Gren.
  • Galium atropatanum Grossh.
  • Galium bassitense J.Thiébaut
  • Galium bracteolatum Sennen
  • Galium brebissonii Le Jol. ex Nyman
  • Galium caucasicum Lag.
  • Galium floridum Salisb.
  • Galium gironae Sennen
  • Galium glabratum Klokov
  • Galium glabrum Hoffm.
  • Galium hypanicum Klokov
  • Galium lacteum (Maxim.) Pobed.
  • Galium leonis Sennen
  • Galium luteoverticillatum St.-Lag.
  • Galium luteum Lam.
  • Galium luteum Garsault
  • Galium luteum St.-Lag.
  • Galium luteum var. brachycarpum (DC.) St.-Lag.
  • Galium luteum var. trachyphyllum (Wallr.) St.-Lag.
  • Galium mauryi Sennen
  • Galium minimum Gilib.

and 92 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.