Marsh bedstraw
| Marsh bedstraw | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marsh bedstraw ( Galium palustre ) |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Galium palustre | ||||||||||||
| L. |
The marsh bedstraw ( Galium palustre ) is a plant from the genus of Galium ( Galium ) in the family of the Rubiaceae (Rubiaceae).
description
The marsh bedstraw is a hibernating green, perennial herbaceous plant that usually reaches heights of 8 to 30, rarely up to 150 cm. The thin stems are somewhat rough due to downwardly directed prickly trichomes , and only rarely are they smooth. The leaves are rounded. The middle leaves are 5 to 15 mm long.
The flowering time is between May and July or September, depending on the location. The inflorescences are loose, the partial inflorescences are profuse. The hermaphrodite flowers are fourfold. The usually four-lobed, white crown has a diameter of 2 to 3.5 mm. The red anthers are particularly characteristic .
The fruits, which stand on straight fruit stalks, are fine-grained, rough.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24.
Possible confusion
The marsh bedstraw can easily be confused with the tall bedstraw ( Galium elongatum ). Some authors also summarize both species as subspecies of a species, which is then given the scientific name Galium palustre L. s. l. wearing. You can distinguish the marsh bedstraw by its non-white-edged stem and its flowers, which are no more than 4 millimeters wide. Its chromosome number is also 2n = 24, while the high bedstraw has the number 2n = 96.
ecology
The marsh bedstraw is a hemicryptophyte . The flowers are pre-male. Spontaneous self-pollination is possible.
Occurrence
The distribution area of the marsh bedstraw extends from Europe to western Siberia, from Greenland to Maryland and includes the Azores and northwestern Africa. The marsh bedstraw thrives from the colline to montane or high-montane altitudes at altitudes of up to 1850 meters, for example in the pond at the Seehütte at the northwest foot of the Kleiner Rappenkopf in the Allgäu Alps in Bavaria. It grows in wet meadows, large sedge areas, reed beds, banks, ditches and light wet forests. The preferred soils are wet, partially flooded, moderately nutrient-rich clay and swamp humus soils. In Central Europe it is a character species of the Magnocaricion association.
The marsh bedstraw is common in all Austrian federal states.
Systematics
The first publication of Galium palustre was made in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum , 1, 105. There are homonyms : Galium palustre M.Bieb. in Flora Taurico-Caucasica , 1, 1808, p. 103 and Galium palustre Pourr. ex will. & Lange in Prodromus Florae Hispanicae , 2, 1868, p. 322. Synonyms for Galium palustre L. are: Rubia palustris (L.) Baill. , Galium palustre var. Genuinum Cout. , Galium diffusum Gilib. , Galium incarnatum Gilib. , Galium montanum With. , Galium witheringii Sm. , Galium glomeratum Vill. ex Roem. & Schult. , Galium palustre var. Brachyphyllum Opiz , Galium palustre var. Rupicola Desm. , Galium fontinale K. Koch , Galium rupicola (Desm.) Boreau , Galium palustre var. Umbrosum Asch. , Galium palustre var. Majus Schur , Galium palustre var. Witheringii (Sm.) Nyman , Galium palustre var. Maximum Heinr.Braun , Galium rumelicum Formánek , Galium palustre var. Morisianum Rouy , Galium palustre f. submersum Glück , Galium vayredae Sennen , Galium masferreri Sennen , Galium palustre subsp. tetraploideum A.R. Clapham , Galium palustre var. balticum Apelgren , Galium tetraploideum (ARClapham) GHLoos .
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 .
- Hans-Joachim Zündorf, Karl-Friedrich Günther, Heiko Korsch, Werner Westhus (eds.): Flora of Thuringia. The wild fern and flowering plants of Thuringia . Weissdorn, Jena 2006, ISBN 3-936055-09-2 .
- Galium palustre L. sl, swamp bedstraw - Galium palustre agg .. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Galium palustre L. s. st., marsh bedstraw. In: FloraWeb.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Real marsh bedstraw - Galium palustre s.str. February 8, 2011 Data sheet at Botanik im Bild / Flora of Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol
- ↑ 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. 768-769 .
- ↑ Ruprecht Düll , Herfried Kutzelnigg : Pocket dictionary of the plants of Germany and neighboring countries. The most common Central European species in portrait . 7th, corrected and enlarged edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-494-01424-1 .
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Galium palustre. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved January 29, 2016.
- ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 509.
- ^ Galium palustre at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Entry at Kew.
Web links
- Galium palustre L. s. st., marsh bedstraw. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Galium palustre 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 )
