High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Galium bolanderi is a species of flowering plant in the coffee family known by the common name Bolander's bedstraw. It is native to the mountains of central and northern California, and its range may extend just into Oregon. It is a resident of mountain forests and chaparral slopes. This is a stout perennial herb or small shrub growing from a woody base. It produces sprawling or climbing stems up to 25 centimeters long which may be hairless to hairy.