Asperula conferta

Asperula conferta, commonly known as common woodruff, is a low-spreading perennial herb of the family Rubiaceae endemic to Australia. It grows up to about 30 centimetres tall from a slender rhizome, with weak, scrambling, four-angled stems that are minutely scabrous along the angles. The leaves are sessile and arranged in whorls of five or six, narrowly linear to narrow-elliptic, usually 6 to 16 millimetres long and only about 1 millimetre wide, with a single midvein and a small mucronate tip; like other members of the Rubiaceae the apparent whorl comprises two true opposite leaves with several leaf-like stipules. In late spring and summer the stems carry small, four-lobed, white to pinkish tubular flowers about 2 to 3 millimetres long, clustered in dense terminal and upper-axillary cymes. The fruit is a small dry schizocarp splitting into two indehiscent mericarps. It is widespread across temperate eastern and southern Australia, occurring in open woodland, dry sclerophyll forest and native grassland, often on heavier soils.