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What does bedstraw mean?

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Noun
  1. any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers
  2. Any plant of the genus Cruciata.
  3. (obsolete) straw put into a bed
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Keep your eyes peeled for Knotted pearlwort and slender bedstraw, two rare plants found at Dolebury Warren.
Wild flowers present include wild basil, agrimony, hedge bedstraw and wild teasel.
Feverfew, bird's-foot trefoil, spring quill and heath bedstraw also lend their colors.
The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts.
Gerard records the preference for rennet made from lady's bedstraw in making Cheshire cheese.
It feeds on goose-grass, and other kinds of bedstraw, in May and early June.

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