| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Genus: | Galium |
| Editor | Osmonali Bektemir |
| Scientific name: | Galium verum L. |
| Herbar: | list records  |
| Description: | Herbs, perennial, with rootstock and rhizomes. Stems erect, (5-)15-70(-120) cm tall, 4-angled, densely puberulent, villosulous, or hirtellous to rarely glabrous and smooth. Leaves 1-2.5 mm wide, glabrous to densely pubescent abaxially; fruit 1.5-2 mm |
| Tax. Comments: | sect. Galium |
| Link to Flora of China: | http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200022090 |
| Habitat: | Mountains, grasslands, meadows, river beaches, open fields, ditch sides, streamsides, wet places, forests, thickets, valleys; |