| 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 |