Bog bedstraw

Bog bedstraw
	Bog bedstraw ( Galium uliginosum )
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Enzianartige (Gentianales)
Family :	Red family (Rubiaceae)
Genre :	Bedstraws ( Galium )
Type :	Bog bedstraw
Scientific name
	Galium uliginosum
	L.

The bog bedstraw ( Galium uliginosum ) is a species of the red family (Rubiaceae).

features

The stem is rough with downward spines.

The whorled leaves have a prickly tip and prickles directed towards the leaf base.

fruit

The bog bedstraw is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 10 to 30, rarely up to 60 centimeters. The stem is rough, bare, square and lying to ascending. Usually six to eight, rarely five leaves stand together in whorls. The leaves are linear-lanceolate, lightly tipped, remain green and rough on the edge backwards.

The flowers are wider than the ripe fruits, 2.5 to 3 millimeters in diameter and are white. The stamens are yellow. The fruit is 1 millimeter wide, fine-grained, rough and papilose.

The flowering period extends from May to September.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 22 or 44.

Moor bedstraw (leaves)

Occurrence

The bog bedstraw is basenhold, i. In other words, it prefers basic soils and populates flat bogs, wet meadows and banks up to altitudes of 1800 meters. In the Allgäu Alps, it rises to an altitude of around 1280 meters. Its area extends across Europe to Siberia and China. The species is also found in Morocco. This species is widespread in Central Europe. It is in Central Europe, a characteristic species of the order Molinietalia, but also comes in companies of the Association Caricion fuscae ago.

literature

Siegmund Seybold : Flora of Germany and neighboring countries. A book for identifying vascular plants that grow wild and often cultivated . Founded by Otto Schmeil , Jost Fitschen . 93rd completely revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2006, ISBN 3-494-01413-2 .
Eckehart J. Jäger, Klaus Werner (Ed.): Excursion flora from Germany . Founded by Werner Rothmaler. 10th edited edition. tape 4 : Vascular Plants: Critical Volume . Elsevier, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich / Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1496-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp. 768 .
↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2. IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 507.
↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Galium uliginosum. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 29, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Bog Bedstraw - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Bog bedstraw. In: FloraWeb.de.
Bog bedstraw . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.
Galium uliginosum L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved January 29, 2016.
Distribution in the northern hemisphere according to: Eric Hultén , Magnus Fries: Atlas of North European vascular plants 1986, ISBN 3-87429-263-0
Thomas Meyer: Bedstraw data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )

[Oberdorfer2001-1] Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp. 768 .

[Dörr-Lippert-2] Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2. IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 507.

[WCSP-3] Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Galium uliginosum. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 29, 2016.