SHINING BEDSTRAW
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Galium concinnum Torr. & A. Gray
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| Miami County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 8-26 inches |
| Family: Rubiaceae - Madder Family |
| Flowering Period: June, July, August, September |
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| Stems: | | Spreading to ascending, usually much-branched, 4-angled, glabrous or finely pubescent on angles. | | Leaves: | | Appearing whorled, 6 per node; petiole absent; blade narrowly elliptic to linear, 1/4 to 1 inch long, 1/16 to 1/6 inch wide, 1-nerved, base cuneate, margins entire, glabrous or slightly rough, apex acute to cuspidate, mucronate, surfaces glabrous. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicles, cymes, 3--25-flowered, terminal and/or axillary; peduncles 3/5 to 1 2/5 inch, spreading to ascending. | | Flowers: | | Pedicels 1/25 to 1/4 inch. Flowers: calyx essentially absent; petals 4, united basally; corolla white, to 1/20 inch; stamens 4; exserted. | | Fruits: | | Schizocarps 1/16 to 1/12 inch long, 1/8 inch wide, glabrous, mericarps globose, dry, 2, indehiscent, often bristly segments; 1 seed per mericarp. | | Habitat: | | Rocky maple-basswood and oak-hickory forests, bluffs, ledges, floodplain forests, roadsides, thickets. | | Distribution: | | East 1/4 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Uses: | | Native Americans took an infusion of the whole plant for kidney and bladder troubles. | | Comments: | | Galium, milk, alluding to former use of plants of this genus to curdle milk and concinnum, elegant. Nine species of Galium are found in Kansas. |
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