BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Galium verum L. (Lady’s Bedstraw)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Galium verum In flower 15 July 2007 Berks England 10
Galium verum Plant 15 July 2001 N. Hants England 3

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #photos
Variety Galium verum var. maritimum DC. (a lady's bedstraw) 5
Variety Galium verum var. verum 1

Suggested Literature

Galium verum 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 verum:

(live) live is parasitised by Neoerysiphe galii - a powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Foreign Ing, B., 1990
(live) live is parasitised by pycnium Puccinia punctata - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
(live) live is parasitised by uredium Pucciniastrum guttatum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (base) (live) live leaf (base) is swollen by embedded sorus Melanotaenium endogenum - Bedstraw Smut (Urocystales: Melanotaeniaceae) UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes thick, black, gall-like swellings]
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous telium Puccinia galii-verni - 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) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by hypophyllous aecium Puccinia punctata - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is parasitised by amphigenous uredium Puccinia punctata - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by telium Pucciniastrum guttatum - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniastraceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [on dark brown areas which may cover the whole leaf]
leaf leaf is grazed by nocturnal larva Aglaostigma fulvipes - a sawfly (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) Benson, R.B., 1952
shoot (live) live shoot is swollen by embedded sorus Melanotaenium endogenum - Bedstraw Smut (Urocystales: Melanotaeniaceae) UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
stem (live) live stem is swollen by embedded sorus Melanotaenium endogenum - Bedstraw Smut (Urocystales: Melanotaeniaceae) UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes thick, black, gall-like swellings, often at nodes of stunted shoots]
stem (live) live stem is parasitised by telium Puccinia galii-verni - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Minor Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Galium verum 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

Benson, R.B., 1952 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (b)
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota