Galium tricornutum
Galium tricornutum
Havotu
Annual, 10-60 cm, with scrambling, flaccid, quadrangular, retrorsely scabrid stems. Leaves in whorls of 6-8, 10-30 x 2-4 mm, linear-oblanceolate to oblanceolate, long-acuminate, with retrorsely aculeolate flat margins and midrib, glabrous on both surfaces. Thyrses elongate, axillary cymes 1-5-flowered, usually scarcely longer than leaves, - sometimes distinctly longer. Peduncles 8-15 mm; pedicels 1-8 mm, stout and curved downwards and inwards after flowering. Central flowers hermaphrodite, lateral male. Corolla white, cup-shaped, 1-2 mm diam., with ovate-oblong, acute lobes. Mericarps single or paired, 2.5-5 mm, densely covered with acute verruculae. Fl. 4-6. Cultivated and waste ground and other dry, open habitats, 10-1800 m.
S.,W. & C. Europe, Caucasia, Iraq, Iran, C. Asia to Kashmir, Tibet; introduced elsewhere. Medit. element.
