Fragrant Bedstraw, Galium triflorum Michx., Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, Bedstraw

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Fragrant Bedstraw	Galium triflorum Michx.	Madder	Woodland	Early Summer
Other names and notes	(Sweet scented Bedstraw, Three-flower Bedstraw) One of the five "Bedstraws" in the Garden, this plant has very small white 4-ppetal flowers, up to 1/8" wide, often growing in branched 3-flower clusters terminally or from the leaf axils. The plant grows from 3 to 30" in a scrambling manner. The leaves are elliptical, mostly smooth, and mostly in whorls of 6 and give off a vanilla odor when crushed. It is distributed quite widely in Minnesota.

Notes: Eloise Butler had catalogued this plant in her plant index as present in the Garden area. Curiously, Martha Crone did not list it on her 1951 Garden Census. It is native and distributed quite widely in Minnesota with the exception being the dryer counties of the SW quadrant. It is found in all the lower 48 states and all of Canada.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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