53.) RUBIACEAE - Bedstraw family
- Sherardia arvensis L. (Field Madder) / General
- Phuopsis stylosa (Trin.) Benth. & Hook. f. ex B.D. Jacks. (Caucasian Crosswort) 1979 General
- Asperula cynanchica L. ssp. cynanchica (var. cynanchica? - Stace) (Squinancywort) - Grassland
- Asperula arvensis L. (Blue Woodruff) General
- Galium odoratum (L.) Scop. (Woodruff) / Woodland
- Galium uliginosum L. (Fen Bedstraw) - Wetland
- Galium palustre L. ssp. palustre (Common Marsh-bedstraw) / Wetland
- Galium palustre L. ssp. elongatum (C. Presl) Arcang. (Common Marsh-bedstraw) - Wetland
- Galium verum L. (var. verum - Stace, NBN) (Lady's Bedstraw) / Grassland
- Galium verum x G. album = G. x pomeranicum Retz. (Stace) Galium verum var. / ssp. maritimum x G. album = G. x pomeranicum / nothosubsp. hillardiae (Druce) P.D. Sell. (Stace) Galium verum x G. mollugo = G. x pomeranicum Retz. (NBN) (Hybrid Yellow Bedstraw) - Grassland
- Galium album Mill. (Stace) Galium mollugo L. (ssp. erectum Syme and ssp. mollugo are uncertain? - Stace) (NBN) (Hedge Bedstraw) / General
- Galium pumilum Murray (Stace) Galium pumilum Murray ssp. pumilum (NBN) (Slender Bedstraw) Grassland
- Galium saxatile L. (Heath Bedstraw) / Grassland
- Galium aparine L. (ssp. aparine - Stace, NBN) (Cleavers) / General
- Galium spurium L. (ssp. spurium - Kew var. echinospermum (Wallr.) Hayek? - Stace, var. vaillantii (DC.) Kostel. - NBN) (False Cleavers) 1932 General
- Galium tricornutum Dandy (Corn Cleavers) 1906 General
- Cruciata laevipes Opiz (Crosswort) / General
- Rubia peregrina L. (Wild Madder) / Woodland
Species to add:
- Galium parisiense (Wall Bedstraw) - Bishopston Rupert Higgins
- Galium murale (Small Goosegrass) - Bishopston Rupert Higgins
Brilliant quote by White (1912) [add to roadsides section]:
"The Yellow and Hedge Bedstraws are especially associated with the wayside strips of turf that border many of our upland roads upon oolite or limestone, where the width from fence to fence is (by old statute) greater than the traffic requires. These roadside wastes are choice features of the country wherever they remain, being usually sprinkled with all the representative flowers and grasses of the localities. Unluckily, of late years a decentralised rural government has thought fit to mow and trim these flowery edgings in many districts, presumably with a view to formality and tidiness. No doubt employment is thereby provided, and the rates are increased; but many of us will consider our country roads to be more attractive, as well as more economical, in their natural condition. Moreover, there have been instances in which the sole county station for a rare plant has been entirely destroyed by this mistaken action of a parochial council. It is difficult to reconcile oneself to the idea that the loss and damage here depicted are inevitable and beyond control".
Cleavers The practice of sticking it onto someone's back without them realising has long been a prank and still survives today.