[ noun ] any of several plants of the genus Galium <noun.plant>
Bedstraw \Bed"straw`\, n. 1. Straw put into a bed. --Bacon.
2. (Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.
{Our Lady's bedstraw}, which has yellow flowers, is {Galium verum}.
{White bedstraw} is {Galium mollugo}.
Of their wrongdoing they knew not; such things as daisies, ground ivy, mulleins and bedstraw were actually considered useful in 17th-century New England.