Characteristics
Dicots
Galium aparine L.
GOOSEGRASS; SPRING CLEAVERS; STICKYWILLY
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Native
FACU (NWPL)
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Citation
GALIUM APARINE Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 108. 1753.
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Without data (lectotype: LINN 129.3). Lectotypified by Jafri, in Jafri & El-Gadi, Fl. Libya 65: 15. 1979.
Species Distribution Map
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Synonyms
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Type
Aparine hispida
Aparine hispida Moench, Methodus 640. 1794, nom. illegit.
BASIONYM: Aparine vulgaris Hill 1770; Galium aparine Linnaeus 1753.
Aparine vulgaris
Aparine vulgaris Hill, Herb. Brit. 2: 149. 1770.
BASIONYM: Galium aparine Linnaeus 1753.
Asperula aparine
Asperula aparine (Linnaeus) Besser, Prim. Fl. Galiciae Austriac. 1; 114. 1809.
BASIONYM: Galium aparine Linnaeus 1753.
Asterophyllum aparine
Asterophyllum aparine (Linnaeus) Schimper & Spenner, in Spenner, Fl. Friburg. 3: 1077. 1829.
BASIONYM: Galium aparine Linnaeus 1753.
Galium aculeatissimum
Galium aculeatissimum Kitaibel ex Kanitz, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 13: 548. 1863.
Galium aparine forma intermedium
Galium aparine Linnaeus, forma intermedium (Bonnet) R. J. Moore, Canad. J. Bot. 53: 881. 1975.
BASIONYM: Galium aparine Linnaeus, var. intermedium Bonnet 1883; Galium intermedium Mérat de Vaumartoise 1831, non Schultes 1809.
Galium aparine subsp. agreste
Galium aparine Linnaeus, subsp. agreste P. D. Sell, Fl. Great Britain Ireland 4: 530. 2006.
TYPE: GREAT BRITAIN: Hall Close, Bassingbourn, Cambs, 12 Aug 1994, Sell 94/282 (holotype: CGE).
Galium aparine var. agreste
Galium aparine Linnaeus, var. agreste P. D. Sell, Fl. Great Britain Ireland 4: 530. 2006.
BASIONYM: Galium aparine Linnaeus, subsp. agreste P. D. Sell 2006.
Galium aparine var. hirsutum
Galium aparine Linnaeus, var. hirsutum Mertens & W. D. J. Koch, in Röhling, Deutschl. Fl., ed. 3. 1: 774. 1823.
Galium aparine var. intermedium
Galium aparine Linnaeus, var. intermedium Bonnet, Petite Fl. Paris 191. 1883.
BASIONYM: Galium intermedium Mérat de Vaumartoise 1831, non Schultes 1809.
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