Woodruff
वुडरफ
Galium odoratum (L.) Scop.
- light
- Part–shade
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 23 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Rubiaceae
Also called Sweetscented bedstraw
Formerly Asperula eugeniae, Asperula odorata, Asterophyllum asperula, Asterophyllum sylvaticum, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. Eurasia, AlgeriaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade to shade (under 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Persian
- زبرینه
- German
- Waldmeister, Echter Waldmeister
- Chinese
- 车轴草, 香猪殃殃, 香豬殃殃
- Spanish
- Asperilla
- Galician
- Áspera
- Croatian
- Lazarkinja
- Arabic
- جويسئة عطرة
- Azerbaijani
- Ətirli çətiryarpaq
- Bashkir
- Яҙғы бөрмәкәй
- Bulgarian
- Лазаркиня
- Catalan
- Espunyidella d'olor
- Czech
- svízel vonný
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Galium odoratum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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