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Coastal bedstraw

Galium bermudense

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.January 4, February 4, March 4, April 6, May 9, June 4, July 16, August 5, September 5, October 4, November 3, December 3.
United States328
North Carolina54
Georgia20
Alabama18
South Carolina17
Mississippi15
Virginia6
Louisiana6
West Virginia1
New Jersey1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderGentians, Dogbanes, Madders, and Allies · Gentianales
Familymadder family · Rubiaceae
Genusbedstraws · Galium

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Coastal bedstraw with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.