BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

RUBIACEAE (madder, goosegrass and bedstraws)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #refs #webs
Genus Asperula (woodruffs) 2 10 4   11
Species Cruciata laevipes Opiz (Crosswort)   7     21
Genus Galium (bedstraws) 10 69 32 1 141
Genus Rubia (madders) 1 2     7
Species Sherardia arvensis L. (Field Madder)   7     11

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Sell, P. & Murrell, G., 2005 Flora of Great Britain and Ireland 4: Campanulaceae to Asteraceae

RUBIACEAE may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with RUBIACEAE:

Photos root root is parasitised by underground tuber Orobanche caryophyllacea - Bedstraw Broomrape, Clove-scented Broomrape (Orobanchaceae) Foreign Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985

Rubiaceae may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

References

Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. & Moore, D.M., 1985 Flora of the British Isles

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