Galium murale

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| genus = Galium

| species = murale

| authority = (L.) All.

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Galium murale is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common names small goosegrass,{{BSBI 2007 |access-date=2014-10-17}} yellow wall bedstraw{{PLANTS|id=GAMU4|taxon=Galium murale|accessdate=2016-01-19}} and tiny bedstraw. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin of southern Europe and northern Africa, and the Middle East from Turkey and the Caucasus east to Iran and south to Saudi Arabia and Somalia. It is also considered native to the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Azores. It is naturalised in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile and California.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=86930 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Galium%20murale.png Biota of North America Program]Bacigalupo, N.M., E. L. Cabral & C.M. Taylor. 2008. Rubiaceae. 107(3): 2871–2920. In F. O. Zuloaga, O. N. Morrone & M. J. Belgrano (eds.) Catálogo de las plantas vasculares del Cono Sur, Monographs in Systematic Botany from Missouri Botanical Garden

Galium murale is an annual herb producing upright stems just a few centimeters long lined with whorls of 4 to 6 oval-shaped leaves not more than about 3 millimeters long each. Flowers appear singly or in pairs in the leaf axils. Each is about a millimeter wide and greenish to greenish-yellow. The fruit is a tiny nutlet coated in hooked hairs.Allioni, Carlo. 1773. Auct. Syn. Meth. Stirp. Hort. Regii Taur.: 8Allioni, Carlo. 1785. Flora Pedemontana 1: 8.[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=galium+murale Altervista Flora Italiana]