Log In New Account Sitemap
  • Home
  • Specimen Search
    • Search Collections
    • Map Search
    • Exsiccati Search
  • Images
    • Image Browser
    • Search Images
  • Flora Projects
    • Arizona
    • New Mexico
    • Colorado Plateau
    • Plant Atlas of Arizona (PAPAZ)
    • Sonoran Desert
    • Teaching Checklists
  • Agency Floras
    • NPS - Intermountain
    • USFWS - Region 2
    • BLM Flora
    • Coronado NF
    • Tonto NF
  • Dynamic Floras
    • Dynamic Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Additional Websites
    • New Mexico Flores
    • Plant Atlas Project of Arizona (PAPAZ)
    • Southwest Colorado Wildflowers
    • Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness
    • Consortium of Midwest Herbaria
    • Consortium of Southern Rocky Mountain Herbaria
    • Intermountain Region Herbaria Network (IRHN)
    • Mid-Atlantic Herbaria
    • North American Network of Small Herbaria (NANSH)
    • Northern Great Plains Herbaria
    • Red de Herbarios del Noroeste de México (northern Mexico)
    • SERNEC - Southeastern USA
    • Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH)
  • Resources
    • Symbiota Docs
    • Video Tutorials
    • Collections in SEINet
    • Joining a Portal
Galium wrightii A. Gray  
Family: Rubiaceae
Wright's Bedstraw, more...slenderbranch bedstraw, Wright bedstraw
[Galium frankliniense Correll, moreGalium rothrockii A. Gray, Galium wrightii var. rothrockii (A. Gray) Ehrend. ex Ferris]
Galium wrightii image
Max Licher
  • VPAP
  • SW Field Guide
  • Resources
JANAS 29(1)
Plant: perennial herb; Polygamous perennials, variously glabrate, velvety, scabrous or hispid, but hairs not hooked; STEMS several to many, 15-50 cm high from suffrutescent bases Leaves: 4 per node, 7-20 mm long, linear, oblanceolate, rarely elliptic, narrowed gradually to broad insertions, narrowed abruptly to acute, often pungent, apices Flowers: in diffuse inflorescences, the branchlets divaricate and much exserted; corollas red, pink, or rarely yellow, rotate, mostly glabrous, the tips usually long and slender Fruit: FRUITS with long straight hairs Misc: Moist banks and sheltered slopes, in partial shade; 1000-2650 m (3500-8700 ft); May-Nov REFERENCES: Dempster, Lauramay T. 1995. Rubiaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Sci. 29(l): 29.
JANAS 1995, Kearney and Peebles 1969, McDougall 1973
Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Subshrub General: Herbaceous to suffrutescent perennials, 15-60 cm tall, stems several to many, slender, erect to ascending, pubescent with small, stiff hairs (hirtellus), herbage often pungent. Leaves: Opposite, whorled, 4 per node, linear, oblanceolate, or rarely elliptic, 5-20 mm long, narrowing gradually to broad insertions at the bases as well as abruptly to acute apices. Flowers: Very small, red, pink, or rarely yellow, corollas 1-2 mm wide, with long-acuminate lobes, mostly glabrous, the tips usually long and slender, polygamous, flowers borne in diffuse inflorescences, the branchlets divaricate and much exserted. Fruits: Fruits 1-2 mm in diameter, surfaces with long, straight, white hairs. Ecology: Found on moist banks and sheltered slopes, in partial shade, from 3,500-9,000 ft (1067-2743 m); flowering May-November. Distribution: California and Nevada, east to Texas. Notes: This species of Galium can become somewhat bushy and large with age. Ethnobotany: There is no use recorded for this species, but other species in this genus have uses. Synonyms: Galium frankliniense, G. rothrockii, G. wrightii var. rothrockii Editor: LCrumbacher 2012 Etymology: Galium is from the Greek word gala, "milk," and alluding to the fact that certain species were used to curdle milk while wrightii is named after William Greenwood Wright (1831-1912), one of the first lepidopterists in California, author of Butterflies of British Columbia, The Butterflies of the West Coast of the United States (1905), Colored Plates of the Butterflies of the West Coast (1907), and Butterfly Hunting in the Desert.
Galium wrightii
Open Interactive Map
Galium wrightii image
Max Licher
Galium wrightii image
Sue Carnahan
Galium wrightii image
Sue Carnahan
Galium wrightii image
Sue Carnahan
Galium wrightii image
Patrick Alexander
Galium wrightii image
Patrick Alexander
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Jack Dash
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Galium wrightii image
Click to Display
100 Initial Images
- - - - -
View All Images
The National Science Foundation
Development supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)
Powered by Symbiota