Flora of Israel: Bristle-like Bedstraw

Galium setaceum, Bristle-like Bedstraw,
Hebrew: דבקה דקיקה, Arabic: لصيقه


Scientific name:		Galium setaceum Lam.
Synonym name:		Galium decaisnei Boiss.
Common name:		Bristle-like Bedstraw
Hebrew name:		דבקה דקיקה
Arabic name:		لصيقه
Family:		Rubiaceae, פואתיים

_{Location: Bene Zion Nature Reserve}


Life form:		Annual
Stems:		Up to 30 cm tall, but usually much smaller; erect, slender, glabrous to sparsely pubescent
Leaves:		Whorled; entire; smooth
Inflorescence:		Cymes
Flowers:		Purple; hermaphrodite
Fruits / pods:		Mericarps c. 0.5–0.8 mm long, densely covered with hooked hairs to glabrous
Flowering Period:		April
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon
Chorotype:		Irano-Turanian
Summer shedding:		Ephemeral

Galium setaceum, Bristle-like Bedstraw, لصيقه, דבקה דקיקה

_{Location: Bene Zion Nature Reserve}

Derivation of the botanical name:
Galium from Greek word gala, "milk," and alluding to the fact that certain species were used to curdle milk.
setaceum, bristled.

The standard author abbreviation Lam. is used to indicate Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 – 1829), a French botanist.
The standard author abbreviation Boiss. is used to indicate Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810 – 1885), a Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician.

_{Location: Bene Zion Nature Reserve}

Flora of Israel online, Native plants, Nature

_{Location: Bene Zion Nature Reserve}