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Bolander's Bedstraw
Galium bolanderi
  
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About Bolander's Bedstraw (Galium bolanderi) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Galium bolanderi is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name Bolander's bedstraw. It is native to the mountains of California and southern Oregon. It is a resident of mountain forests and chaparral slopes. Galium bolanderi is a stout perennial herb or small shrub growing from a woody base. It produces sprawling or climbing stems up to 25 centimeters long which may be hairless to hairy. Small pointed leaves grow in whorls of four divided into two pairs at intervals along the stem, which may branch at these points. The plant is dioecious, with male plants producing clusters of staminate flowers on pedicels and female plants producing solitary pistillate flowers. Both types of flower are usually maroon. The fruit is a berry.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Perennial herb

Wildlife Supported
 


 
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 9 likely * ) SHOW ALL
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Dainty Sulphur Nathalis ioleNathalis iole
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White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineataHyles lineata
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Red Twin-Spot Xanthorhoe ferrugataXanthorhoe ferrugata
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Epirrhoe plebeculataEpirrhoe plebeculata
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The Gem Orthonama obstipataOrthonama obstipata
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Gray Pug Eupithecia subfuscataEupithecia subfuscata
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Zenophleps lignicolorataZenophleps lignicolorata

Landscaping Information
Natural Setting
Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 10.6" - 143.7", Summer Precipitation: 0.17" - 5.56", Coldest Month: 10.8" - 50.4", Hottest Month: 34.1" - 77.8", Humidity: 0.39" - 26.66", Elevation: 212" - 14090"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Bolander Galium


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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