Galium divaricatum is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name Lamarck's bedstraw.
The plant is native to the Mediterranean Basin and the Black Sea region, from Portugal and Morocco to Turkey and Crimea; as well as the Macaronesia archipelago of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, on the Azores, Canary Islands, and Madeira. It has naturalized in Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and scattered locations in the mainland United States.
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The Galium species are annual to perennial herbaceous plants, rarely subshrubs. The upright or climbing stems are, at least as long as they are young, square and often clearly prickly or burr-like.
