Galium aparine L. subsp. aparine

Spice Flower - fruit detail Flower In the field

Family: RUBIACEAE

Genus: Galium

Catalan common name: Amor d'hortelà. Apelagós. Apelagosa. Gafetets. Garrotxa. Raspallengua. Rèbola d'hortolà.

Spanish common name: Amor de hortelano. Azotalenguas. Lapa. Lárgalo. Presera.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera. Cabrera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Some regions

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Humid sites, path and road sides, disturbed zones.

Characteristics: An herbaceous plant with whorled leaves and underwinged stem. This one of the larger and apparent of the ruderal Galiums. The stems and leaves are are covered by rigid needles. The inflorescences are multifloral cymous terminations of small white coloured flowers. The fruit is pilous. Can de told apart from subspecies spurium by its wider leaves (5-8 mm.) whitish corolla and larger fruits (3-5 mm.).