Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Galium trifidum is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name threepetal bedstraw. It is native to most of northern and western North America from Alaska eastern Canada to Mexico, where it grows in moist habitat. It is a usually perennial herb forming tangles of thin stems up to half a meter long ringed with whorls of several linear to oval leaves. The flower cluster is a cluster of small white or pinkish flowers, each with usually three petallike lobes in its corolla.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

10 - 19 in Tall

Form

Mounding

Growth rate

Moderate

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Color

White, Pink

Flowering season

Summer

Sun

Partial Shade

Soil description

Adaptable, tolerant of sand, loam and clay.

Site type

Wet places

Plant communities

Alpine Fell-Fields, Chaparral, Foothill Woodland, Lodgepole Forest, Red Fir Forest, Subalpine Forest, Valley Grassland, Yellow Pine Forest, Wetland-Riparian

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

0 confirmed and 10 likely

Confirmed Likely

Epirrhoe plebeculata

Gray Pug

Eupithecia subfuscata