Anyone else feel this seems to be an agressive nuisance plant that is hard to control?:

https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/catchweed-bedstraw-galium-aparine/

The above article makes it sound like a native, but this article makes it aound like an invasive:

https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Invasives/fact/WhiteBedstraw.html#:~:text=Ecological%20threat%3A,areas%20such%20as%20roadside%20ditches.

Maybe I'm not comparing apples to apples or maybe I didn't read the 1st article close enough


It pulls easy but the question to me would be whether a person is pulling it in time & whether they are getting all the roots

that is what that is called , yes I have it yes it is a pain

I need to go get it out of all my ferns around the front of the house before they get much bigger

It's a sticky bugger

I suppose it'll go to seed soon

There's always something to do. You seem like a busy guy too Pete.

I wouldn't worry about it for a couple of reasons

1) its a native so that means it has developed here and "belongs" if you want to put it that way.
2) its an annual so that means it will do best in disturbed areas. so once you have a healthy growth of a native plant environment it'll fade out. Most annuals like disturbances.
3) its not a particularly aggressive plant, it won't take over areas like garlic mustard, buckthorn or even the native Canada Goldenrod.
4) your effort is better focused on really bad non-natives first, garlic mustard, buckthorn, bush honeysuckle, Dames Rocket and on and on.

There are several different bedstraws (Galium) I have Galium mollugo (white bedstraw) growing in a field, its a non-native invasive plant. I'm spraying it with a herbicide to get rid of it.
I have Galium aparine like you and Galium boreale (Northern Bedstraw) along with another that I can't recall right now.

Northern Bedstraw is an attractive woodland plant and I go out of my way not to disturb it.

If your worried about the stick tights from it I'd make sure you clean out Burrdocks before I'd worry about any native plants.

Thanks. I'm not so sure my bed straw is the native type though. I've been researching this week to try to figure out if any of what I have on my 2 properties is the invasive white bed straw

Hogs love eating it

I guess hogs will eat anything. Nothing else seems to enjoy it. I don't like it

05:20 I was out weeding this morning , the ferns took off since that post I never got in there to get the bedstraw out , the ferns are so thick now it probably isn't getting any sun they can choke stuff out in a hurry. they went form fiddle heads to chest high in a little over a week

north side of my house had ferns when I bought it 19 years ago I keep letting them take over more and more each year and move them some also

if it has chest high ferns I don't have to mow it and it is nice and green

As long as it isn't the invasive white bedstraw

You are right that garlic mustard is much worse & should be focused on. It still doesn't seem too late in the year to bag the garlic mustard, but I would think that seeds got to be popping pretty soon