Galium L., is a large genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Rubiaceae, with about 400 species occurring in the temperate zones of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. A mintage come diversely referred to as bedstraw (virtually all mintage), goosegrass (G. aparine), meat cleaver (G. tricornutum, G. aparine) & woodruff (G. odoratum).

Bedstraws come utilized when food plants per larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Riband Wave, Silver-ground Carpet, Common Carpet, Barred Straw, Hummingbird hawk moth, The Flame, Flame Shoulder, Autumnal Rustic and Square-spot Rustic.

;Selected species Galium aetnicum Galium album - Upright Bedstraw Galium aparine - Goosegrass, Cleavers, or even Stickywilly Galium arenarium - Sand Bedstraw Galium aristatum Galium baldense Galium boreale - Northern Bedstraw Galium corrudaefolium Galium debile - Slender Marsh Bedstraw Galium elongatum - Nifty Marsh Bedstraw Galium firmum Galium fleurotii Galium glaucum - Glaucous Bedstraw Galium humifusum Galium longifolium Galium lucidum Galium mollugo - Hedge Bedstraw Galium normanii Galium obliquum Galium odoratum - Woodruff Galium oelandicum Galium olympicum Galium palustre - Most common Marsh Bedstraw Galium parisiense - Wall Bedstraw Galium pumilum - Slender Bedstraw Galium rotundifolium Galium rubrum Galium saxatile - Heath Bedstraw Galium schultesii Galium spurium - False Cleavers Galium sterneri - Limestone Bedstraw Galium suecicum - Swedish Bedstraw Galium sylvaticum - Wood Bedstraw Galium tricornutum - Corn Cleavers Galium trifidum Galium triflorum - Conifer Bedstraw Galium uliginosum - Fen Bedstraw Galium valdepilosum Galium verum - Lady's Bedstraw

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