Wildflowers Identified: Small Cleavers/Sweet-Scented Bedstraw

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Small Cleavers/Sweet-Scented Bedstraw has these characteristics:

• 3 petals
  
• tubular petals
  
• several flowers on stem
  
• 1/8 of an inch or less flower width
  
• whitish flower color
  
• blooms in July
  
• blooms in August
  
• blooms in September or later
  
• plant height one foot or less
  
• plant height one foot to two feet
  
• leaf petiole absent (has no leafstalk)
  
• arrangement of leaves on stem is whorled (three or more from a point)
  
• smooth leaf edges
  
• parallel leaf veins
  
• branched leaf veins
  
• simple leaves about 1 1/2 to 5 times as long as wide
  
• simple leaves over 5 times as long as wide
  
• stem is hairy or spiny
  
• stem is square
  

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