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Any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers
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Any plant of the genus Cruciata.
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Straw put into a bed
Examples of bedstraw in a Sentence
These include heath bedstraw, lesser stitchwort, yellow bartsia, tormentil cross-leaved heath and spotted orchids.
The larval foodplants are cleavers, hedge bedstraw and primroses.
The bedstraw plant is a common plant and includes species such as cleavers and lady's bedstraw plant is a common plant and includes species such as cleavers and lady's bedstraw.
Wet patches are dominated by heath rush and here heath bedstraw is likely to be the only common herb.
The herbaceous composition predominantly consists of marsh bedstraw, meadowsweet and ragged robin.
The grassland is dominated by blue moor-grass with herb species such as limestone bedstraw, carline thistle and wild thyme present.
A county rarity, fen bedstraw, is also present.
As well as marram grass there are a lot of flowering plants such as ladies bedstraw, northern marsh orchid and cowslip.
Where Juncus spp. dominate, marsh bedstraw (Galium palustre) and greater bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus uliginosus) often sprawl among the rushes.
Churchyards are often the only place where traditional meadow plants such as ladies ' bedstraw and meadow saxifrage can still flourish.
Species within the meadows include Yorkshire fog, great burnet, Lady's bedstraw, common knapweed, meadow vetchling and pepper saxifrage.
The top fields are well drained and have a typical acid grassland community including species such as tormentil, heath bedstraw and heath speedwell.