Galium murale, (L.) All.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 36

145. G. murale (L.) All. , FI. Pedem. 1: 8 (1785).

Stems 5-20 cm, procumbent or ascending from a much-branched base, but usually without branches above, smooth or retrorsely aculeolate (also with patent hairs above). Leaves 4-10 x 0-8-2-5 mm, in whorls of 4-6, widely to narrowly oblanceolate, shortly awned, hairy to glabrescent. Inflorescence cylindrical, few-flowered, with 1-4 flowers in each whorl, in 2-flowered partial inflorescences or solitary; pedicels 0-5-1 -5 mm, shorter than the bracts, deflexed after anthesis. Corolla c. 0-7 mm in diameter, yellowish, glabrous or somewhat hairy externally; lobes acute. Fruit l-3-l-5mm, cylindrical; mericarps curved and separated from one another, often unequal, and with hooked setae especially towards the apex (rarely glabrous). 2л = 44. Roadsides, rocky ground and other dry, open habitats. Mediterranean region and S. W. Europe. Al Az BI Co CrGaGrHsItJu Lu Sa SiTu.