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Scientific Name
Galium australe
Family Name
RUBIACEAE
Common Name
Tangled Bedstraw
Status
Height
Flowers
Very small in 1-5 flowered clusters along length of stem and also sometimes on lateral shoots.
Fruit
Dry with two lobes
Form
Slender perennial herb with straggling stems which sometimes root at the base.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Brighton; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Clarence; Derwent Valley; Devonport; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Glenorchy; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Sorell; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar
Communities
Coastal Vegetation; Fern Gullies; Heath; Dry pastures and hillsides
Habitat Notes
Widespread and frequent in a variety of habitat, dry pastures and hillsides, coastal dunes and heaths, and occasionally epiphytic on trunks of tree ferns in fern gullies.
Site Tolerance
Dry; Exposed; Moist; Shady; Windy
Frost Tolerance
Soil Tolerance
Clay; Fertile; Loam; Phosphorous intolerant; Poor; Sandy; Well-drained; Epiphytic
General Notes
Suitable below powerlines.
Propagation Details
Propagation Calendar
Flowering Months
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Dec
Seed Collecting Months
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Sowing Months
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Feb
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Nov
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Cutting Months
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
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Jun
Jul
Aug
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Oct
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Dec
Seed Information
Seed Collection
Fruit, dry 2-lobed densely covered with stiff hooked hairs
Seed Treatment Method
Standard
Seed Storage Life
Viable Seeds Per Gram
Seed Treatment Notes
May be propagated from seed.
Germination Time
Suitable for Direct Seeding
Cuttings
Expected Time to Take Root
Expected Time to Plant Out
Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
Yes
Cutting Notes
Also grown from cuttings or division of creeping rhizomes.
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