Wild Flowers Of Strathclyde Park
  
 

Common Marsh Bedstraw
Galium palustre
of the Bedstraw family
a perennial
30-50 cm high
blooms June-July
likes margins of ponds, lakes and rivers
can be seen between North and South Beach

   
This plant is very common at the edges of ponds, lakes and river, especially where the water is standing during the winter.