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White bedstraw

Bedstraw \Bed"straw`\, n.

  1. Straw put into a bed.
    --Bacon.

  2. (Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.

    Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum.

    White bedstraw is Galium mollugo.

WordNet
white bedstraw

n. Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America [syn: wild madder, white madder, infant's-breath, false baby's breath, Galium mollugo]