Bed·straw n.
 1. Straw put into a bed.
 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.

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 white bedstraw
      n : Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers;
          naturalized in North America [syn: wild madder, {white
          madder, infant's-breath, false baby's breath, {Galium
          mollugo]