bedstraw
- noun
- /ˈbɛdˌstrɔ/
:
galega
- While walking through the hedgerow, I discovered clusters of bedstraw intertwined with other wildflowers.
- northern bedstraw
Examples
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Bedstraw, or what the Scots call sticky Willie, has tiny hooks that cover the plant, helping it to clamber over other vegetation—but also making it difficult to eat.
Academic text (1995) -
Whatever its source, the story Celestine listened to, night after night, was the story the soldier had whispered into her ear, so long ago, as she lay curled on her side, each small movement releasing the frothy sweetness of the bedstraw.
Fiction book (1997) -
The floor of the cave into which the soldier led her was spread with bedstraw, so with each step her sense of division grew stronger, unable as she was to reconcile the sweet, milky odor of a meadow with the moist and decomposing odor of this hole where he apparently made his home.
Fiction book (1997) -
In the meadow, the bedstraw bloomed alongside bright yellow buttercups.
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The gardener noticed that the bedstraw spread quickly, covering the ground with its small white flowers.
Synonyms
A small green plant that grows close to the ground and spreads
A group of small flowering plants like cleavers and bedstraw that live for one year or many years
A wild plant with loose groups of small white flowers that grows in Europe and North America
A wild herb from Europe and Asia with small white flowers that grows in meadows
A plant in North America that lives for several years and gardeners often plant for its small white star-shaped flowers
A North American plant that lives for many years with small white flowers often grown in gardens
A North American plant that grows each year with small white flowers and spreads across the ground
A small plant that grows near the ground with white flowers that smell sweet
A low plant with small white flowers that smells sweet and is used to scent clothes or cover the ground
A small wild plant that grows in moist shaded parts of North America and has sweet roots
A low plant with many small yellow flowers that grows in meadows
A common plant with small yellow flowers that lives many years
A wild meadow plant with many small yellow flowers and a sweet smell
Compounds
A low plant with small white flowers that smells sweet and is used to scent clothes or cover the ground
A North American plant that lives for many years with small white flowers often grown in gardens
A North American plant that grows each year with small white flowers and spreads across the ground
A wild herb from Europe and Asia with small white flowers that grows in meadows
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bedstraw is a simple compound of bed and straw; people once used this plant as 'straw' to fill mattresses. So the name means a plant used for beds, and today it refers to the wild plants you find in fields and hedges.
