heath bedstraw
galium saxatile latin

Acidic soils support such plants as bilberry, climbing corydalis and heath bedstraw.

The forest floor here is a habitat for spurges, heath bedstraw and fly agaric toadstools.

Feverfew, bird's-foot trefoil, spring quill and heath bedstraw also lend their colors.

Plant species in the meadow area include sheep's fescue, heath grass, heath bedstraw and harebell.

Galium saxatile or Heath Bedstraw is a plant species of the genus Galium.

Notable species include mat-grass, heath bedstraw and tormentil, as well as several species of lichen that are uncommon in Leicestershire.

Heath Bedstraw (Galium saxatile)

Buzzards, kestrels, lapwings and curlews are common, while bilberry, tormentil and heath bedstraw carpet the soil.

A range of typical heathland flowers flourish, including Heath Bedstraw, Lousewort, Tormentil and Sneezewort.

Fine-leaved fescues, wavy hair-grass and purple moor-grass dominate the acid grassland areas with a mix of wood sage, heath bedstraw and other typical species.

The larva feeds on moor matgrass near bogs and springs and the nectar-feeding adult visits bilberry, tormentil and heath bedstraw.

The soils in the higher regions are, as in most of the Harz, comparatively poor in nutrients and bases, so that only a few herbaceous plants occur here, such as heath bedstraw (Galium saxatile).

On the upper slopes the juniper is associated with species-rich acid grassland, which is dominated by sheep's fescue, Festuca ovina, common bent, Agrostis capillaris, heath bedstraw, Galium saxatile, and tormentil, Potentilla erecta.

The Fell is actively managed by Durham County Council, in an effort to maintain a broad range of heathland species, including such desirable species as Heath Bedstraw, Galium saxatile, and Common Tormentil, Potentilla erecta.

To balance this out and complement it further work below summit level has also aimed at restoring grasslands, rich in herbs, hay meadows, wet flushes which produce bog cotton, Heath Bedstraw and the rarer Mountain Pansy and natural woodlands.

Additionally, flora typical of relatively basepoor clay soils, such as pignut Conopodium majus, betony Betonica officinalis, heath bedstraw Galium saxatile, tormentil Potentilla erecta, devil's-bit scabious Succisa pratensis, and mat grass Nardus stricta, are present.

Older, established blocks of heather have greater biodiversity and include lichens as well as flowering plant species isuch as heath bedstraw Galium saxatile, lady's bedstraw Galium verum, common speedwell Veronica officinalis and sheep's fescue Festuca ovina.

In the northern part of the site, areas where the underlying limestone outcrops at the surface, or has been cut into by small streams, are marked by bands of grassland, typically dominated by mat-grass, Nardus stricta, and with herbs such as heath bedstraw, Galium saxatile, and tormentil, Potentilla erecta.