Goosegrass
Galium aparine L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- —
Rubiaceae
Also called Stickywilly
Formerly Aparine vulgaris, Asterophyllum aparine, Crucianella purpurea, Galion aparinum, and 10 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia to Temp. EurasiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension white; Wikipedia green, white
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Chinese
- 八仙草, 猪殃殃, 原拉拉藤
- Czech
- svízel přítula
- Welsh
- llau‘r offeiriad
- Finnish
- kierumatara
- French
- gaillet gratteron
- Macedonian
- лепавец
- Dutch
- kleefkruid, Kleefkruid
- Slovenian
- plezajoča lakota
- Simplified Chinese
- 原拉拉藤
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Galium aparine (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.