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bedstraw /ˈbɛdstrɔː /nounA herbaceous plant with small white or yellow flowers and whorls of slender leaves, formerly used for stuffing mattresses.- Genus Galium, family Rubiaceae: several species.
Wildflowers: fire pink, several kinds of blue violets, pink and yellow lady's slippers, goldenrod, blue-stem goldenrod, blue asters, and bedstraws....- Magnificent displays of bluebells are out just now and the ground vegetation also has an abundance of foxgloves, heath bedstraw and wood sorrel.
- If you flick through the pages of wild flower books you'll see a host of different types of bedstraws, many of which only those armed with a hand lens and a keen eye will be able to differentiate.
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