Galium tricornutum Dandy

Spice Fruit Fruit 2 In the field

Family: RUBIACEAE

Genus: Galium

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. Cultivated fields.

Characteristics: We will find this plant in arable land, sometimes along roadsides, always stretched out along the ground. Its fruits are rounded, with some minute warty bumps and with small, curved pedicels; these features allow it to be distinguished from Galium verrucosum which lives in the same habitats but which has fruits covered with warty bumps and without pedicels.