Galium maritimum, 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 : 22

24. G. maritimum L. , Mantissa 38 (1767).

Stems 30-80 cm, erect to ascending, often decumbent, 4-angled, much-branched, densely hairy. Leaves 9-20 x 1-4 mm, in whorls of 6-8(-9), narrowly elliptical to linear-lanceolate, shortly awned, more or less equally hairy above and beneath; margin recurved but not to the midrib. Inflorescence broadly ovoid, much-branched; partial inflorescences dense-flowered, leafy; pedicels slender, divaricate, hairy. Corolla 2-2*5 mm in diameter, rotate, reddish-brown, rarely yellowish, sparsely hairy externally; lobes apiculate. Fruit densely hairy. Dry places’, calcifuge. • E. Spain, S. France. Ga Hs.

Variable and connected by hybrids with 26. Records from N.W. Jugoslavia are erroneous.