Bed·straw n.
1. Straw put into a bed.
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.
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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]