A perennial herb with whorls of three or four narrow, green, blunt-ended leaves and square stems. Stems are usually around 25cm long but might straggle through tussac bogs up to a metre long. Flowers are solitary and white and can be seen from November through to February. In the Falklands it is widespread and Antarctic Bedstraw forms low matts in damp patches of white grass flats, and on Diddle Dee heath. It thrives along streams, on dwarf shrub heath, coastal heath, cliffs and slopes. A plant native to the Falkland Islands but also found in southern South America from Tierra Del Fuego north to around 48⁰S.

Sources include:, Flowering Plants of the Falkland Islands- Robin W Woods, The Vascular Flora of the Falkland Islands- D. M. Moore, B.Sc., Ph.D, 1968,

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