Galium odoratum

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Galium odoratum
(L.) Scop.

plante en fleurs
Ordre Gentianales
Famille Rubiaceae
Genre Galium

2n = 44

Origine : Europe, Caucase

sauvage

Français aspérule odorante
Anglais sweet woodruff


Résumé des usages
  • arôme alimentaire (bière, vin...)
  • médicinal
  • insectifuge


Description

Noms populaires

français aspérule odorante, petit muguet, reine des bois
anglais sweet woodruff
allemand Waldmeister
néerlandais lievewrouwebedstro
italien stellina odorosa, regina dei boschi
espagnol aspérula, hierba de las siete sangrías, reina de los bosques
portugais aspérula, rainha do bosque

Classification

Galium odoratum (L.) Scop. (1771)

synonyme :

  • Asperula odorata L. (1753)

Cultivars

Histoire

Usages

Asperula odorata Linn. Rubiaceae. WOODROOF. Europe and the adjoining portions of Asia. The flowers are sweet-scented. The herbage is not fragrant when fresh but, after being gathered for a short time, it gives out the perfume of new hay and retains this property for years. In Germany, woodroof is used for imparting a flavor to some of the Rhine wines. In England, it is cultivated occasionally as a garden herb, being used for flavoring cooling drinks. Its seed is advertised in American garden catalogs. Woodroof will thrive in the shade of most trees and grows in all kinds of garden soil.


As medicine (Herba asperulae odoratae) and spice plant cultivated in gardens or in semi-cultivation in forests. - The coumarin containing herbage is also used as spice for wine (may-wine) and desserts. Commercial use in some countries forbidden or restricted. Wild distribution: N and Central Europe, southern to the mountains of Italy and of the Balkan peninsula (to Thessalia), W Siberia, N Africa.

Mansfeld.


Références

  • Chauvet, Michel, 2018. Encyclopédie des plantes alimentaires. Paris, Belin. 880 p. (p. 643)
  • Heeger, E. F. - Handbuch des Arznei- und Gewürzpflanzenbaues: Drogengewinnung. Deutscher Bauernverlag Berlin 1956: 775 p.
  • Hegi, G. - Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa., Ed. 1 IV (3) 1924.


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