Galium trifidum

Threepetal bedstraw
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Faimily:	Rubiaceae
Genus:	Galium
Species:	G. trifidum
Binomial name
	Galium trifidum; L.

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Galium trifidum is a species o flouerin plant in the coffee faimily, kent bi the common name threepetal bedstraw. It graws widespread in the arctic, temperate an subtropical regions o the Northren Hemisphere: northren an central Asie (Siberie, the Roushie Far East, Cheenae, Japan, Kazakhstan), northren an eastren Europe (Scandinavie, Fraunce, Austrick, Poland, Roushie, Ukraine, Easter states) an hintle o North Americae (frae Greenland an the Aleutians as far sooth as Oaxaca an Hispaniola).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Galium trifidum is a uisually perennial herb fuirmin tangles o thin stems up tae hauf a meter lang, ringed wi whorls o several linear tae oval leaves. The inflorescence is a cluster o smaw white or pinkish flouers, each wi uisually three petal-like lobes in its corolla.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Subspecies

Five subspecies are currently recognisit (May 2014):^[1]

Galium trifidum subsp. brevipes (Fernald & Wiegand) Á.Löve & D.Löve - Canadae an the northren Unitit States (Dakotas tae Maine)^[3]
Galium trifidum subsp. columbianum (Rydb.) Hultén - Roushie Far East (Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin), Japan, Korea, Cheenae, Taiwan, Alaska, Breetish Columbie, Washington State, Oregon, Californie, Nevada, Idaho, Montana
Galium trifidum subsp. halophilum (Fernald & Wiegand) Puff - Quebec, Newfoondland, Canadian Maritimes, Maine, Massachusetts
Galium trifidum subsp. subbiflorum (Wiegand) Puff - Alaska, Yukon, Northwast Territories, Alberta, Breetish Columbie, heich elevations in the wastren Unitit States as far sooth as Californie an New Mexico
Galium trifidum subsp. trifidum - widespread throuoot maist o species range

References

↑ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families^{[deid airtin]}
↑ Biota of North America Program, Galium trifidum
↑ ^a ^b Biota of North America Program, Galium brevipes
↑ Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa.
↑ Voss, E. G. 1996. Michigan Flora, Part III: Dicots (Pyrolaceae-Compositae). Cranbrook Inst. of Science, Ann Arbor.
↑ Moss, E. H. 1983. Flora of Alberta (ed. 2) i–xii, 1–687. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Freemit airtins

[marionkadushin-1] Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families^{[deid airtin]}

[2] Biota of North America Program, Galium trifidum

[lillytruscott-3] Biota of North America Program, Galium brevipes

[4] Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa.

[5] Voss, E. G. 1996. Michigan Flora, Part III: Dicots (Pyrolaceae-Compositae). Cranbrook Inst. of Science, Ann Arbor.

[6] Moss, E. H. 1983. Flora of Alberta (ed. 2) i–xii, 1–687. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

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