四叶葎(原变种) si ye lü (yuan bian zhong)

Galium fukuyamae Masamune; G. gracile Bunge (1833), not Wallroth (1822); G. gracile var. miltorrhizum (Hance) Loesener; G. gracilens (A. Gray) Makino; G. lutchuense Nakai; G. miltorrhizum Hance; G. remotiflorum H. Léveillé & Vaniot; G. trachyspermum A. Gray var. gracilens A. Gray.

Stems glabrous. Leaf blade ovate-lanceolate at lower part, attenuate at upper part. Inflorescence paniculate and lax. Corolla glabrous. Fl. Apr-Sep, fr. May-Jan.

Forests or meadows on hills or mountains, open fields, farmlands, ditch sides; below 100-2600 m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea].