Bedstraw, True
- Product number: 367900
- Origin: Europe
- Latin: Galium verum
This is a native plant, so it's excellent for naturalizing. The base consists of fine, edible leaves growing in whorls, followed by small yellow flowers in generous clusters. These emit a delightfully sweet fragrance! For this reason, dried flowers used to be placed between bed sheets to repel fleas. The flowers are widely used as a versatile dye plant in food and clothing, but also to separate rennet from whey in cheese (coagulate). Finally, the seeds can also be roasted to make a coffee substitute, and the flower tops yield a pleasant, bitter drink.
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Latin: Galium verum
Dutch: Echte walstro
Also: Gele walstro
English: Lady's Bedstraw
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- Flower colour: Yellow, delicate flowers in substantial clusters
- Origin: Europe
- Average growth height: 30 to 60 cm
- Annual or perennial: Perennial
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- Winter hardy: Forst hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Easy
- Latin: Galium verum
- Dutch: Lady's bedstraw
- Also known as: Lady's bedstraw
- English: Lady's Bedstraw
