Sweet Woodruff is a low-spreading herbaceous perennial with aromatic dark green lance-shaped foliage on square stems. Loose cymes of fragrant white flowers bloom in masses come late spring. Flowers best in and moist to wet well-drained soils. As the fragrance intensifies as it dries, Sweet Woodruff is often used in potpourris.
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Type:
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Perennial, Groundcover
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Height:
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0.5' - 1'
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ad:
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1' - 1.5’
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Spacing:
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1’
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USDA Hardiness Zone:
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4 - 8
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Culture:
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Part Sun, Full Shade
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Bloom Color:
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White
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Season of Interest:
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Spring
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MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low maintenance. No serious pests or diseases. Foliage may go dormant in summer if planted in sun or soils dry.
LANDSCAPE USES: Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Woodland Gardens, Rock Gardens, Foundational Plantings, Groundcover, and Containers.
COMPANION PLANTS: Woodland Phlox, Bleeding Heart, Hosta
IMAGES: Jack Pearce, My Back Yard, Spring Flowers — "Ahhhh...Sweet Woodruff", (2) Photo by David J. Stang, Galium odoratum 8zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (3) Christopher Schlosser, Group of Galium odoratum in forest, CC BY-SA 3.0, (4) Björn Traeger, Galium odoratum Flower, CC BY-SA 3.0, (5) Andreas Rockstein, Galium odoratum
*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.
