Galium sylvaticum, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 28

77. G. sylvaticum L. , Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 155 (1762).

Stolons absent. Stems 80-100 cm, stout, bushy, terete, often with faint ridges above, glabrous; young shoots glaucous-pruinose. Leaves 20-40 x 3-10 mm, broadly oblanceolate to elliptical, widest at or above the middle, glaucous especially beneath, usually not blackish when dry, rather membranous; margin subscabrid with few rows of slender teeth. Inflorescence lax, broadly ovoid; pedicels often longer than diameter of corolla. Corolla 2-3 mm in diameter, cup-shaped, often nodding before anthesis; lobes acute. Ovary and fruit more or less pruinose. 2л = 22. Woodland and scrub. • From the Netherlands, N. Germany and N.W. Poland southwards to S.E. France, N. Italy and N. W. Jugoslavia. Au Be Cz fDa Ga Ge He Ho Hu It Ju Po.