fragrant bedstraw
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Definition
Noun: - A perennial plant: A low-growing, spreading plant native to Europe and Asia, known for its pleasant scent, small white flowers, and narrow leaves. It spreads via stolons (runners) and is often used as a ground cover in gardens. Historically, its leaves have been used for flavoring and in perfumed sachets.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- The garden's edge was lined with fragrant bedstraw, releasing a sweet smell in the evening air.
- For a traditional scent, she filled the linen closet with small bags of dried fragrant bedstraw.
Advanced Usage
- Botanical classification: While commonly known as fragrant bedstraw, it has been classified under different genus names by botanists, including and .
- The specimen was keyed out as Galium odoratum, also historically referred to as fragrant bedstraw.
Variants and Related Words
- Sweet woodruff: A common alternative name for the same plant ().
- Sweet woodruff is often used to flavor May wine.
- Ground cover: A general term for low-growing plants used to cover soil, a category which includes fragrant bedstraw.
- We need a hardy ground cover for this shady slope.
Synonyms
- Galium odoratum: The current standard botanical Latin name.
- Asperula odorata: A former botanical Latin name still found in some references.
- Sweet woodruff: The most common vernacular synonym.
Related Phrases
- Used as flavoring: Describes one of the traditional applications of the plant's leaves.
- Several herbs, like fragrant bedstraw, were used as flavoring before modern spices were widely available.
- Used in sachets: Describes one of the traditional applications of the plant's dried parts.
- Dried lavender and fragrant bedstraw are classic choices for linen sachets.
Noun
- Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula