Galium aparine L.

English: Bedstraw, Catchweed

German: Kletten-Labkraut

Mandarin: 原拉拉藤 (yuan la la teng)

Portuguese: Raspa-saias

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Gentianales (113)

        Family: Rubiaceae (62)(family description)

          Genus: Galium (4)

            Epithet: aparine L. (1)

Synonyms: Aparine hispida Moench, Aparine vulgaris Hill, Crucianella purpurea (L.) Honck., Galion aparinum (L.) St.-Lag., Galium adhaerens Boiss. & Balansa, Galium agreste Wallr., Galium asperum Honck., Galium australe DC., Galium charoides Rusby, Galium chilense Hook.f., Galium chonosense Clos, Galium hispidum Schrad., Galium horridum Eckl. & Zeyh., Galium intermedium Mérat, Galium lappaceum Salisb., Galium vaillantii DC., Rubia aparine (L.) Baill.

adhaerens => sticky

agreste => wild on arable land

aparine => holding on, clinging

aparinum => bedstraw (clinging, seizing)

asperum => rough, harsh

australe => southern, of the southern hemisphere

chilense => from Chile

hispida => with stiff hairs or bristles

hispidum => with stiff hairs or bristles

horridum => prickly

intermedium => intermediate, in between, a hybrid

lappaceum => resembling Greater Burdock, Arctium lappa

purpurea => purple

vaillantii => in honor of Sébastien Vaillant (1669-1722), French botanist

vulgaris => common, everyday

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

Check for Galium aparine at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

• [48] Image of Galium aparine - Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz
• [555] Galium aparine - Plants For A Future database
• [1772] Galium aparine - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)

• [17] Rothmaler, W. (1995): Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Band 3, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany.