Sweet Woodruff

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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 lat e 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. Type: Perennial, Groundcover Height: 0.5' - 1' ad: 1' - 1.5’ Spacing: 1’ USDA Hardiness Zone: 4 - 8 Culture: Part Sun, Full Shade Bloom Color: White Season of Interest: Spring 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. Show more