Family | RUBIACEAE |
Genus species | Galium coloradoense W.Wight |
Bibliography | Zoe 5: 54 (1900) |
Native Range | w. Colorado, ne. Arizona, e. Utah, New Mexico |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | stony grassland |
Description | branchlets glabrous, leaves rather thick, rigid, linear, acute, uninerved, 1-3cm long, in whorls of 4, flowers 8-15 in cyme, flowers ca. 2mm across |
Size | 15-30cm |
Color | yellowish |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny site with a deep, drained soil alpine house, rich, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Galium multiflorum var. coloradoense (W.Wight) Cronquist |
Territory | 7 Northern America 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (ARI Arizona, UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) |