Galium_stellatum Knowpia

Galium stellatum, the starry bedstraw or desert bedstraw, is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is widespread across most of Arizona, and found also in Baja California, Baja California Sur, southeastern California (Inyo, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial and San Diego Counties), Nevada (Clark, Nye and Lincoln Cos.), Utah (Washington County).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.^[6]

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^ "Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
^ BONAP (11 February 2014). "Floristic Synthesis of NA: Galium Stellatum". The Biota of North America Program. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
^ California Academy of Natural Sciences; Sciences, California Academy of Natural (1858). Proceedings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences. Vol. v.2 (1858-1862). Dr Kellogg; President in the Chair. San Francisco: The Academy. p. 97.
^ Lorence, D.H. (1999). A Nomenclator of Mexican and Central American Rubiaceae: Volume 73 of Monographs in Systematic Botany. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. pp. 1–177. ISBN 9780915279623.
^ Shreve, F.; Wiggins, I. L. (1964). Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert. 2 vols. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
^ Soza, Valerie L.; Olmstead, Richard G. (2010). "Evolution of breeding systems and fruits in New World Galium and relatives (Rubiaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 97 (10): 1630–1646. doi:10.3732/ajb.1000130. PMID 21616799.

Calflora taxon report
Desert Ecology of Tucson, Pima Community College, desert bedstraw
Calphotos, University of California at Berkeley
Tom Chester, Borrego Desert Plants: desert bedstraw, Galium stellatum ssp. eremicum