Wildflowers Identified: Yellow Bedstraw
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Yellow Bedstraw has these characteristics:
- 4 petals
- tubular petals
- cluster or spike of flowers (a spike is a long cluster, with the flowers along the stem)
- 1/8 of an inch or less flower width
- yellow to orange flower color
- blooms in May
- blooms in June
- blooms in July
- blooms in August
- plant height one foot or less
- plant height one foot to two feet
- plant height two feet or more
- 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 over 5 times as long as wide
- stem is square
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Eric Haines,
erich@acm.org