On or about the 10th day of June, you just can't deny that summer has arrived--it arrives in our world as the season called Galium. Galium is the genus of bedstraw. Its foamy, creamy flowers can turn whole fields, ah, foamy and creamy. Of great importance is Galium mulligo.
At the commencement of Galium the legumes go wild. All of the clovers (or many of them) are up, Lotus corniculatus, the bird's foot trefoil, Melilotus alba, and the black medic Medicago lupulia. And though it may seem that summer is all about legumes, it is Galium that gives its name to the season, Galium with its four parted flowers of the Rubiaceae.
Summer has come to Spencertown.
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