lady's bedstraw

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lady's bedstraw (usually uncountable, plural lady's bedstraws or ladies' bedstraws)

  1. A herbaceous perennial flowering plant, Galium verum, used in the Middle Ages for bedding and for making red dye.
    Synonyms: yellow bedstraw, Our Lady's bedstraw
  2. Carpetweed (Mollugo verticillata, syn. Pharnaceum mollugo), a slender-leaved East Indian shrub with white flowers in umbels.

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