Family Index

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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

Jan

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May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Seed Collecting Months

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Sowing Months

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Cutting Months

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

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.