| Scientific Name: | Galium aparine |
| Common Name: | northern bedstraw, cleavers |
| Family Name: | Rubiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true), Vine or climber, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Irregular, Open, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing, Irregular |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Herb, Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Whorled, Sessile, Soft flexible, Glandular hairs, Linear, Oblanceolate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Nut, Schizocarp, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves sessile on stem and usually in whorls of 8, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 4-5cm long x 2-3mm wide, bristly hairs, margins entire and ciliate, 1-4(-7)cm long; flowers about 2mm wide with 4 white petals, in terminal clusters of 3-5; fruit dry, bristly, splits into nut-like mericarps each about 4mm wide. | |