Marshall Gulch 8/13/16 Mexican Bedstraw Flower Mexican Bedstraw Flower Mexican Bedstraw Leaves Mexican Bedstraw Stem Mexican Bedstraw Plant


Wildflowers of Southern Arizona


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Mexican Bedstraw.
Galium mexicanum.
Madder (Rubiaceae) family.

Plant: perennial creeping or climbing herb; stems to 90 cm long. STEMS and leaf margins with few to many aculeate hairs. Leaves: 5-12 (commonly 6) at each node. Flowers: perfect, with generally (not always) campanulate corollas. Fruit: with well developed or obscure uncinate hairs.

Santa Catalina Mountains.
Location: Along shoulder of Marshall Gulch Trail access road.
7/14/15, 8/13/16

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