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White Bedstraw

Galium album

3,391Records since 2000
JunePeak month
89Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan14
Feb23
Mar35
Apr200
May382
Jun784
Jul709
Aug523
Sep264
Oct136
Nov70
Dec38

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England140
2Oxfordshire England106
3Essex England91
4Suffolk England77
5Devon England75
6Cambridgeshire England74
7Rutland England73
8Cumbria England71
9Cornwall England63
10Sefton England60
11Surrey England59
12Herefordshire, County of England59
13Norfolk England58
14West Berkshire England51
15Gloucestershire England48
3,205 England50 Scotland27 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 89 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,391
Peak month
June
Counties with records
89
Scientific name
Galium album
Also known as
Hedge Bedstraw
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
23,411
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Gentianales
Family
Rubiaceae
Genus
Galium
Name with authority
Galium album Mill.
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q160265 · GBIF 2913931