About Galium tricornutum Dandy
Galium tricornutum Dandy is a flowering plant species in the coffee family, with the common names rough corn bedstraw, roughfruit corn bedstraw, and corn cleavers. It is widespread across most of Europe, northern Africa, and southern Asia, ranging from Norway, Portugal and Morocco to China. It has also become naturalized in Australia, the Canary Islands, Mauritius, Madeira, Réunion, Brazil, Argentina, and scattered locations in North America, where it occurs mostly in California and Oregon. This species is an annual herb, with trailing or climbing stems that reach up to around 35 centimeters long. It can grow in tangled masses or spread out in a thin growth form. Its stems are sometimes nearly square in cross-section. Leaves are arranged in whorls of 6 to 8 around the stem; they are narrow, pointed, and edged with prickles. Flowers grow in thin clusters, with white corollas. The fruits are spherical nutlets that hang in pairs at the leaf axils. The plant sometimes grows as a weed of grain fields, but drastically changed farming practices over the past 50 years have pushed it to the edge of extinction in the United Kingdom.
