| galium | (n) annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers, Syn. genus Galium |
| cleavers | (n) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia, Syn. goose grass, spring cleavers, clivers, catchweed, Galium aparine |
| northern bedstraw | (n) North American stoloniferous perennial having white flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental, Syn. Galium boreale, Northern snow bedstraw |
| sweet woodruff | (n) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula, Syn. Galium odoratum, fragrant bedstraw, waldmeister, woodruff, Asperula odorata |
| wild licorice | (n) bedstraw with sweetish roots, Syn. Galium lanceolatum |
| wild madder | (n) Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America, Syn. false baby's breath, Galium mollugo, white madder, infant's-breath, white bedstraw |
| yellow bedstraw | (n) common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia, Syn. Galium verum, Our Lady's bedstraw, yellow cleavers |