| Family | RUBIACEAE |
| Genus species | Galium kamtschaticum Steller ex Schult. & Schult.f. |
| Bibliography | Mant. 3: 186 (1827) |
| Native Range | Russian Far East to e. China and Japan, Aleutian Islands to n. USA |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | thickets and woods |
| Altitude | 100-2300m |
| Description | stems glabrous, leaves in whorls of 4, sessile, broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 10-25mm, glabrous, rounded, mucronate, inflorescence 2-6cm long, temrinal or axillary |
| Size | 5-25cm |
| Color | white, greenish |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
| 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 kamtschaticum var. acutifolium H.Hara Galium kamtschaticum f. intermedium Takeda Galium littellii Oakes Galium rotundifolium var. kamtschaticum (Steller ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Kuntze |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, KUR Kuril Is., PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 36 China (CHM Manchuria, CHS China Southeast) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia) 72 Eastern Canada (NFL Newfoundland, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (ORE Oregon, WAS Washington) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (NWY New York, VER Vermont) |