Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 108 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae cultis & ruderatis."

Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 447 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1875), Census of the plants of Tasmania, instituted in 1875. Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1874: 82 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 533 [secondary reference]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 235 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1929), Bignoniaceae - Compositae. Flora of South Australia 4: 539 [secondary reference]

common name: Goose-grass [n/a] common name: Cleavers [n/a]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 800 [secondary reference]

common name: Goose-grass [n/a] common name: Cleavers [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 357 [secondary reference]

common name: Goose Grass [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1963), Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 2: 273 [secondary reference]

common name: Goosegrass [n/a] common name: Cleavers [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 339 [secondary reference]

common name: Cleavers [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 620 [secondary reference]

common name: Bedstraw [n/a] common name: Goose-grass [n/a] common name: Cleavers [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 189 [secondary reference]

Marsden, C.R. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Rubiaceae (except Gardenia). Flora of Central Australia: 279, Fig. 370 [secondary reference]

common name: goose grass [n/a] common name: Cleavers [n/a]

McGillivray, D.J. (13 October 1983), A revision of Galium (Rubiaceae) in Australia and New Zealand. Telopea 2(4): 376 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Galium aparine var. minor Benth. legitimate

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 140 [secondary reference]

common name: Cleavers [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rubiaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 332, Fig. 47D [secondary reference]

common name: Cleavers [n/a]

James, T.A. & Allen, W.K. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Galium. Flora of New South Wales 3: 484 [secondary reference]

common name: Cleavers [n/a] common name: Goosegrass [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 619, Fig. 120b [secondary reference]

common name: Cleavers [n/a]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

common name: Goosegrass [n/a] common name: Cleavers [n/a]

National Herbarium of New South Wales (2009), PlantNET Flora of New South Wales Online: - [secondary reference]

common name: Cleavers [n/a] common name: Goosegrass [n/a]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 107-108, Fig. 13 [secondary reference]

common name: Large Goosegrass [n/a] common name: Cleavers [n/a]

Thompson, I.R. (5 January 2009), A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubiaceae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27(1): 108 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Galium spurium L. legitimate by Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Rubiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 619, Fig. 120b

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Galium aparina L. orth. var. nomenclatural synonym: Galium aparine L. var. aparine legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Western Australian Herbarium (2011), FloraBase: the Western Australian Flora Version 2.6: - [secondary reference]

common name: Goosegrass [n/a]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 72 [secondary reference]

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