Woodruff

Sweet Woodruff
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Sweet Woodruff (Asperula) - A. odorata, which belongs to the same family as the Coffee Plant, is abundant in many parts of Britain, and worthy of the garden or shrubbery, ...

Sweet Woodruff, Asperula odorata, Bedstraw
Some of these herbs and perennials are grown in rock gardens, while others do best in shady woodland locations.

Sweet Woodruff
Characteristics
Very defined leaf shape with seven leaves around the stem at intevals. White flowers have just four petals and has a aroma that is used as a flavouring.

Sweet Woodruff, Sweet-scented Bedstraw
Scientific Name: Galium odoratum (L.) Scop.
Synonym: Asperula odorata
Family: Rubiaceae ...

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Woodruff
History of Herbs
Herbs have played an important part in man's life for countless years -- in his politics, romance, love, religion, health, and superstition.

Sweet Woodruff, Galium odoratum, Perennial Groundcover for Shade
Sweet woodruff surprises with its starry springtime flowers and delicate leaves. Learn why this shade perennial is a top groundcover for woodland gardens.
How to Plant and Grow Fuchsias ...

Sweet Woodruff is occasionally called Fragrant Bedstraw or Our Lady's Bedstraw, for in Catholic mythology it becomes sacred to the Virgin Mary.

SWEET WOODRUFF (Galium odoratum; or Asperula ordorata)
BRINGING PLANTS INDOORS
SUCCULENTS ARE EASY AND UNUSUAL HOUSEPLANTS ...

Leslie Woodruff Lily ( Lilium )
Lesliei Living Stone ( Lithops lesliei )
Less Thorny angustifolia Bamboo ( Guadua angustifolia ) ...

Purple Woodruff [English]: Asperula cynanchica
Purple Woodsorrel [English]: Oxalis violacea
Purple Woodsorrel [English]: Oxalis purpurea
Purple Wormwood [English]: Artemisia globularia
Purple Wreath [English]: Petrea volubilis ...

Sweet Woodruff
Sweet Woodruff Galium odoratum
Sycamore
California Platanus racemosa
Hybrid or European (London Planetree) Platanus × acerifolia
Taiwania
Taiwania Taiwania cryptomerioides
Tamarack ...

Galium odoratum - Sweet Woodruff
Hedychium species - Ginger Lily
*Helianthus angustifolius - Swamp Sunflower
Hemerocallis hybrids and species - Daylily
*Hibiscus coccineus - Scarlet Swamp Hibiscus
Hibiscus species - Rose Mallow ...

Other woodland favorites include goatsbeard (Aruncus dioicus), columbines (Aquilegia sp.), sweet woodruff (Asperula odorata), hardy orchids (Bletilla striata and Calanthe sp.), northern sea oats (Chasmanthium latifolium), ...

This plant formerly appeared on this web site under the name Sclerocactus whipplei but an email to me by Cactus expert Dorde Woodruff alerted me to the fact that S. whipplei occurs only in northeast Arizona and around Bluff, Utah.

Spring
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis, Zone 3) Sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum, Zone 5)
Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia, Zone 3) Willow blue-star (Amsonia tabernaemontana, Zone 3) ...

Finally, Karen planted perennials, ferns, and groundcovers, including lilies-of-the-valley, sweet woodruffs, and violets for fragrance. The sun-dappled woodland still has a native feel, but with a more personal and unexpected touch.
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Asperula orientalis Woodruff, Blue
annual, easy care
created by ladybug
zones: 3a thru 11b ...

Some shade-tolerant perennials especially well suited for Colorado's semi-arid environment are lady's mantle, sweet woodruff and coralbells, and shrubs like mahonia, golden currant and thimbleberry.

For example, coumarin contributes to the pleasant smell of fresh dried hay. Woodruff (Asperula odorata ) has high coumarin content and is sometimes used to flavour alcoholic drinks in Western Europe and the US. It has come out of use, though.

by drying be comes stronger and more agreeable, somewhat like that of the Tonka bean, this similarity being accounted for by the fact that they both contain the same chemical principle, Coumarin, which is also present in new-mown hay and woodruff, ...

Interplanting a drift of Siberian Blugloss with a fine-textured, flowering, partial shade-tolerant groundcover (Bugleweed, Sweet Woodruff, Barren Strawberry, Lilyturf, Grape Hyacinths, Creeping Baby's Breath, etc.) is especially effective.

Willow herb (Epilobium parviflorum)
Winter savory (Satureja montana)
Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
Wood avens, herb bennet (Geum urbanum)
Woodruff (Galium odoratum)
Wormwood, absinthe (Artemisia absinthium) ...

See also: Sweet Woodruff, May, Green, Galium odoratum, Grass