Common name:
Woodruff
Family:
Scientific name:
Galium odoratum
Main flower color:
Range:
Most of the UK; least common in northern Scotland
Height:
Up to 30 cm
Habitat:
Woodland, especially on calcareous soils
Flowers:
3 mm in diameter; a funnel-shaped corolla opening below the middle to four white lobes, generally ascending rather than spreading. Flowers are arranged in open clusters on hairless stalks
Leaves:
Hairless, lanceolate to elliptical, relatively broad, lined by short, forwards-pointing bristles. In well-spaced whorls of six to eight along the unbranched, hairless stem, which is square in cross-section
Season:
May to June
Rarity:
★★★★★
