Galium paschale

Gök iplikçik

Bluish-green perennial, with rootstock, rarely with short creeping shoots. Stems to 100 cm, erect to ascending, terete towards base, with 4 faint ridges above, glabrous; young shoots glaucous-pruinose. Leaves in whorls of 8-10, 25-40x 1.5-3.5 mm, linear-oblanceolate, oblanceolate-oblong to oblong, mucronate to cuspidate or gradually acuminate, with several rows of minute antrorse teeth along the slightly revolute margins, glabrous, paler and usually glaucous and ± pruinose beneath, only rarely blackening when dry. Inflorescence lax, broadly ovoid, glabrous; peduncles and pedicels capillary. Pedicels 1.5-7 mm, suberect to slightly spreading after anthesis. Corolla white, cup-shaped to subrotate, 2.5-3 mm diam., lobes ovate, obtusish to shortly apiculate. Mericarps broadly ellipsoid to subglobular, c. 1.25-1.75 mm diam., finely rugulose, + pruinose. 2n = 22. Fl. 6-8. Mixed deciduous woods, clearings, 70-2700 m.

?Bulgaria, ?Greece. E. Medit. element.