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Galium odoratum (L.) Scop. (Woodruff)

Wildlife Gardening A useful plant for ground cover, though can be invasive. Although primarily a plant of chalk woodland, in the garden it also thrives on acid soils - it even grows under Rhododendrons.

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Galium odoratum Plant 18 March 2000 Oxon England 3
Galium odoratum Plant 21 June 1973 Mid-west Yorkshire England 1

Suggested Literature

Galium odoratum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
RUBIACEAE
(madder, goosegrass and bedstraws)
Galium
(bedstraws)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Galium odoratum:

(live) live is parasitised by Neoerysiphe galii - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) UK/Ireland Ing, B., 1990
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia punctata - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (fading) fading leaf is parasitised by apothecium Leptotrochila verrucosa - an ascomycete fungus (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (fading) fading leaf is parasitised by Sporonema coelomycetous anamorph Leptotrochila verrucosa - an ascomycete fungus (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by apothecium Leptotrochila verrucosa - an ascomycete fungus (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by Sporonema coelomycetous anamorph Leptotrochila verrucosa - an ascomycete fungus (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium Puccinia punctata - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous aecium Puccinia punctata - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous telium Puccinia punctata - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf may be infected and damaged by Peronospora calotheca - a downy mildew (Peronosporales: Peronosporaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes brown areas on leaves]
leaf (live, old, over-wintered) live, old, over-wintered leaf is parasitised by uredium Pucciniastrum guttatum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live, old, over-wintered) live, old, over-wintered leaf is spotted by telium Pucciniastrum guttatum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [on dark brown areas which may cover the whole leaf]
leaf leaf is mined by larva Liriomyza morio - a leaf-mining fly (Diptera: Agromyzidae) Spencer, K.A., 1972 [initial linear mine often widening later into a blotch]
stem (fading) fading stem is parasitised by Sporonema coelomycetous anamorph Leptotrochila verrucosa - an ascomycete fungus (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (fading) fading stem is parasitised by apothecium Leptotrochila verrucosa - an ascomycete fungus (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (live) live stem is parasitised by Sporonema coelomycetous anamorph Leptotrochila verrucosa - an ascomycete fungus (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (live) live stem is parasitised by apothecium Leptotrochila verrucosa - an ascomycete fungus (Helotiales: Dermateaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Galium odoratum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
RUBIACEAE
(madder, goosegrass and bedstraws)
Galium
(bedstraws)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Spencer, K.A., 1972 Diptera: Agromyzidae

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