About Galium murale (L.) All.
Galium murale (L.) All. is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family, with the common names small goosegrass, yellow wall bedstraw, and tiny bedstraw. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin of southern Europe and northern Africa, as well as the Middle East where it ranges from Turkey and the Caucasus east to Iran, and south to Saudi Arabia and Somalia. It is also accepted as native to the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Azores. This species has become naturalized in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, and California. Galium murale is an annual herb that grows upright stems just a few centimeters long. The stems are lined with whorls of 4 to 6 oval-shaped leaves, each of which is no more than about 3 millimeters long. Flowers grow singly or in pairs from the leaf axils. Each flower is roughly one millimeter wide, and has a greenish to greenish-yellow color. The fruit produced by this plant is a tiny nutlet covered in hooked hairs.
