| Family | RUBIACEAE |
| Genus species | Galium saurense Litv. |
| Bibliography | Trudy Bot. Muz. Imp. Akad. Nauk 7: 75 (1910) |
| Native Range | sw. Siberia to Central Asia and Mongolia |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland and rocks |
| Altitude | subalpine-alpine |
| Description | leaves in whorls of 4-6, linear or oblong-linear, 7-15mm, mucronate, sessile, abaxially white tomentose, inflorescence paniculate, cymes 3-15-flowered |
| Size | 8-30cm |
| Color | bright yellow |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | + |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C division in early spring and fall; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Galium densiflorum var. rosmarinifolium (Bunge) Tzvelev Galium densiflorum var. saurense (Litv.) Tzvelev Galium verum var. alpinum Krylov ex Serg. Galium verum var. rosmarinifolium Bunge |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan) 36 China (CHQ Qinghai, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |