El Dorado bedstraw

--Galium californicum ssp. sierrae A hard-to-see low-growing perennial, El Dorado bedstraw dies back each year to the ground's surface. The plant grows in loose tufts of individual weak, slender stems which are three to eight

This plant is known only from several sites scattered throughout the gabbro soils in western El Dorado County. It often grows in the understory of live oak or black oak woodlands, often on north facing slopes.

Listed under the Federal Endangered Species Act as endangered and with the Sate of California as rare.