Perennial 3-8 dm; stem roundly 4-angled; lvs mostly in whorls of 8-10, linear, 1-nerved, 2-4 cm נ0.5-2 mm, minutely roughened on the margins, revolute to the midrib; peduncles terminal and from the upper axils, trichotomously branched, each forming an umbelliform cluster and together a cymose panicle; cor white, broadly cupulate, 4-6 mm wide, the lobes somewhat longer than the tube; fr smooth, 1.5-2 mm; 2n=22, 44. Native of Eurasia, intr. in our range from N. Engl. and s. Que. to N.J. May-July. (Asperula g.; A. galioides)

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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