Scientific Name: Galium australe
Common Name: coast bedstraw
Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots
Family: Rubiaceae
Form Description: Slender perennial herb with straggling stems 20-60cm long which sometimes root at the base.
Flowers: Very small in 1-5 flowered clusters along length of stem and also sometimes on lateral shoots.
Fruit: 2 lobed mericarp – densely covered with stiff hooked hairs.
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Habitat Notes
Widespread and frequent in a variety of habitat, dry pastures and hillsides, coastal dunes and heaths, and occasionally epiphytic on trunks of tree ferns in fern gullies.
Site Tolerance
Dry, Exposed, Moist, Shady, Windy
Soil Tolerance
Clay, Fertile, Loam, Nutrient-poor, Sandy, Well-drained
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Treatment Method
Standard Scatter seed thinly on to damp potting mix. Hold seed in place by covering with more potting mix to approximately the depth of the seed size.
Cutting & Division Information
Can be grown from cuttings or division of creeping rhizomes.