Hedge Bedstraw - Galium album

Medium to tall plant, sometimes scrambling, usually hairless, stems square and smooth. Rootstock usually reddish with underground stolons. Leaves oblong to elliptical in whorls of 6 to 8 thin and rather pale green one veined. Flowers four parted white 2 to 3 mm in loose branched clusters.

Open woods, scrub, rough grassland and hedgebanks.

June to September

Perennial

Widespread in Britain and fairly common in England at least.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.˜ In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 86 of the 617 tetrads