any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers / Any plant of the genus Cruciata. / (obsolete) straw put into a bed

plural of bedstraw

Galium verum (yellow bedstraw). / Pharnaceum mollugo (cf. Mollugo verticillata), a slender-leaved East Indian shrub with white flowers in umbels.

plural of lady's bedstraw