Galium palustre
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Galium palustre is a herbaceous annual plant
of the family Rubiaceae
. This plant is native to Europe
and North America
http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch?keywordquery=galium+palustre&mode=sciname&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 and has several common names, including Common Marsh-bedstraw.
Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates, flowers, and dies in a year or season. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed...
of the family Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
. This plant is native to Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch?keywordquery=galium+palustre&mode=sciname&submit.x=0&submit.y=0 and has several common names, including Common Marsh-bedstraw.