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Sweetscented Bedstraw This mat-forming plant produces whorls of 6 to 8 fragrant leaves, which smell like freshly mowed hay. It is listed as being absent from Connecticut, but apparently it is not since I found it in Connecticut.<br /> <br /> The sweet scent of this plant is derived from coumarin. This smell increases with wilting and the dried plant is used in potpourri, as a moth deterrent, and as a flavoring in many beverages in in Germany.<br /> <br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59881/sweetscented_bedstraw.html" title="Sweetscented Bedstraw"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3232/59881_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=%2Fr%2BNoWJWYqzNQBY2OX0l1gkyeyA%3D" width="116" height="152" alt="Sweetscented Bedstraw This mat-forming plant produces whorls of 6 to 8 fragrant leaves, which smell like freshly mowed hay. It is listed as being absent from Connecticut, but apparently it is not since I found it in Connecticut.<br /> <br /> The sweet scent of this plant is derived from coumarin. This smell increases with wilting and the dried plant is used in potpourri, as a moth deterrent, and as a flavoring in many beverages in in Germany.<br /> <br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59882/sweetscented_bedstraw.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59883/sweetscented_bedstraw.html Galium odoratum,Geotagged,Spring,Sweet Woodruff,Sweetscented Bedstraw,United States,bedstraw,flower,sweetscented bedstraw,white,wildflower" /></a></figure><br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59883/sweetscented_bedstraw.html" title="Sweetscented Bedstraw"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3232/59883_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=f4NYBw8fBYChrn%2F%2Fdchafd%2Ff6P4%3D" width="112" height="152" alt="Sweetscented Bedstraw This mat-forming plant produces whorls of 6 to 8 fragrant leaves, which smell like freshly mowed hay. It is listed as being absent from Connecticut, but apparently it is not since I found it in Connecticut.<br /> <br /> The sweet scent of this plant is derived from coumarin. This smell increases with wilting and the dried plant is used in potpourri, as a moth deterrent, and as a flavoring in many beverages in in Germany.<br /> <br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59881/sweetscented_bedstraw.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59882/sweetscented_bedstraw.html Bedstraw,Galium odoratum,Geotagged,Spring,Sweet Woodruff,Sweetscented Bedstraw,United States,flower,white,wildflower" /></a></figure> Bedstraw,Galium odoratum,Geotagged,Spring,Sweet Woodruff,Sweetscented Bedstraw,United States,flower,white,wildflower Click/tap to enlarge

Sweetscented Bedstraw

This mat-forming plant produces whorls of 6 to 8 fragrant leaves, which smell like freshly mowed hay. It is listed as being absent from Connecticut, but apparently it is not since I found it in Connecticut.

The sweet scent of this plant is derived from coumarin. This smell increases with wilting and the dried plant is used in potpourri, as a moth deterrent, and as a flavoring in many beverages in in Germany.

Sweetscented Bedstraw This mat-forming plant produces whorls of 6 to 8 fragrant leaves, which smell like freshly mowed hay. It is listed as being absent from Connecticut, but apparently it is not since I found it in Connecticut.<br /> <br /> The sweet scent of this plant is derived from coumarin. This smell increases with wilting and the dried plant is used in potpourri, as a moth deterrent, and as a flavoring in many beverages in in Germany.<br /> <br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59882/sweetscented_bedstraw.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59883/sweetscented_bedstraw.html Galium odoratum,Geotagged,Spring,Sweet Woodruff,Sweetscented Bedstraw,United States,bedstraw,flower,sweetscented bedstraw,white,wildflower

Sweetscented Bedstraw This mat-forming plant produces whorls of 6 to 8 fragrant leaves, which smell like freshly mowed hay. It is listed as being absent from Connecticut, but apparently it is not since I found it in Connecticut.<br /> <br /> The sweet scent of this plant is derived from coumarin. This smell increases with wilting and the dried plant is used in potpourri, as a moth deterrent, and as a flavoring in many beverages in in Germany.<br /> <br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59881/sweetscented_bedstraw.html<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/59882/sweetscented_bedstraw.html Bedstraw,Galium odoratum,Geotagged,Spring,Sweet Woodruff,Sweetscented Bedstraw,United States,flower,white,wildflower

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The Sweet Woodruff

"Galium odoratum", the sweet woodruff or sweetscented bedstraw, is a flowering perennial plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to much of Europe from Spain and Ireland to Russia, as well as Western Siberia, Turkey, Iran, the Caucasus, China and Japan.

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By Christine Young

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Uploaded May 10, 2018. Captured May 8, 2018 12:31 in 281 Main St S, Woodbury, CT 06798, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 80D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/64s
  • ISO400
  • 100mm