Galium aparine




Family Rubiaceae
Scientific name Galium aparine L.
Synonyms Galium agreste Wallroth var. echinospermon Wallroth; Galium agreste Wallroth var. leiospermon Wallroth; Galium aparine L. forma intermedium (Bonnet) R. J. Moore; Galium aparine L. forma leiocarpum Makino; Galium aparine L. forma strigosa Maximovicz; Galium aparine L. subsp. spurium (L.) Simonkai; Galium aparine L. var. echinospermum (Wallroth) Farwell; Galium aparine L. var. intermedium Bonnet; Galium aparine L. var. microphyllum Clos; Galium aparine L. var. minor Hooker; Galium aparine L. var. pseudoaparine (Grisebach) Spegazzini; Galium aparine L. var. spurium (L.) Koch; Galium aparine L. var. subglabrum Petermann; Galium aparine L. var. tupicum Nakai; Galium aparine L. var. vaillantii (de Candolle) Koch; Galium aparine L. var. verum Wimmer & Grabowski; Galium aparine L. var. vulgare Reichenbach; Galium australe Reiche; Galium chilense Hooker f.; Galium chonosense Clos; Galium hispidum Willdenow; Galium hongnoense H. Léveillé; Galium intermedium Merat; Galium lappaceum Salisbury; Galium larecajense Wernham; Galium parviflorum Maximowicz; Galium pauciflorum Bunge; Galium pseudoaparine Grisebach; Galium scaberrimum Vahl ex Hornemann; Galium sororium Hance; Galium spurium L.; Galium spurium L. forma strigosum (Thunberg) Kitagawa; Galium spurium L. var. aparine (L.) Voroschilov; Galium spurium L. var. echinospermon (Wallroth) Hayek; Galium spurium L. var. vaillantii (de Candolle) Grenier & Godron; Galium strigosum Thunberg; Galium uncinatum Gray; Galium vaillantii de Candolle; Galium vaillantii de Candolle subsp. spurium L.
Common name (Japanese common name) yae mugura (ヤエムグラ, 八重葎 [meaning: double weed])
(English common name) tall hairy groovebur, goosegrass, false cleavers, stickywilly
Distribution (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa
(Other nations) Russia, Korea, China, Taiwan, Europe, Africa (naturalized in elsewhere wrldwide)
Habitat Roadside, field, farm yard, forest edge
Chromosomal number 2n=20, 22, 42, 44, 63, 64, 66, ±86, 88
Description Plants creeping or electing 60-90cm long. Leaves 6-8 verticillate, each leaflets 1-3cm long, 1.5-4mm wide. Flowers pale yellow ca. 2mm across, flowering in April to June. Annual or winter annual plants.
Reference Galium aparine L.
Galium aparine L.
Galium aparine L.
Galium spurium L.
Formulation process (US Patent 4875927/1989)
Triasulfurone compounds (US Patent 5359135/1994)
Immunological detection methods (US Patent 5563074/1996)
Method of controlling weeds in transgenic crops (US Patent 6069115/2000)
Uracil compounds and use thereof (US Patent 6451740/2002)
Triazole sulfones having herbicidal activity (US Patent 6461997/2002)
Isolated nucleic acids encoding a wheat glutathione transferase, plants transformed therewith and methods of use thereof (US Patent 6730828/2004)
2-(Poly-substituted aryl)-6-amino-5-halo-4-pyrimidinecarboxylic acids and their use as herbicides (US Patent 7300907/2007)
Pyridone compounds useful for producing pyridine compounds (US Patent 7223862/2007)
Herbicide composition (US Patent 7205260/2007)
Process for producing pyridine compound (US Patent 7157579/2007)



May 2007
at forest edge
May 2007
at forest edge
May 2007
at forest edge



May 2007
at lowland forest edge
May 2007
at lowland forest edge