Galium setaceum

#288 They called me Galium setaceum, also known as Galium sibthorpii. I pay homage to the male botanist John Sibthorp, or Humphry Waldo Sibthorp. They first catalogued me in 1788.

Native to Afghanistan, Algeria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cyprus, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.