The Bedstraw has white flowers on the tip and has pricked stems and rough edges. The white flower has four petals and is almost shaped like a shooting star. Bedstraw can come in different colors: green, yellow, and white. The flowers grow clusters in a tall stem. There leaves are only 1-3 centimeters long. The leaves are a shiny dark green color. The texture is hairy underneath and their leaves form into a shape of a circle.                                                           Bedstraw normally grow in moist soils. Bedstraw likes living in shaded areas in hedges or in waste places. Some bedstraw plants have adapted to dry habitats. Other places to find bedstraw are in sandy, dry meadows, juniper groves, rocky outcrops, and seashores. 

        Bedstraw is edible but has a bitter, mild, or no taste when eaten raw. The best way to eat a bedstraw is to cook it. The parts young leaves, stem, and flowers, can be cooked. Vitamin C is one of the benifits you can get from eating bedstraw. Bedstraw is also used in tea. 

         Lady Bedstraw is another type of bedstraw. Mostly, Lady Bedstraw have most uses for medicine. The medicine parts Native Americans use are the stems, leaves, and flowers. Bedstraw can treat cancer, hysteria, spasms, and tumors, as well as the chest and lungs. Sometimes the people put it over wounds to stop bleeding. Also bedstraw can care for effective bites and stings. The Native Americans used bedstraw by showering the women with bedstraw for love. Bedstraw is also known as: Goose grass, Grip grass, and Catchweed.