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Chinese Licorice

Glycyrrhiza uralensis

Also called Chinese Liquorice, Licorice, Ural Licorice

Chinese licorice is a perennial legume grown mainly for its sweet, deep roots, which are used as a sweetener and in traditional medicine. It needs full sun, well-drained soil and a long, cool-to-warm growing season, and is usually grown outdoors rather than as a houseplant.

Family

Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)

Grows as

Perennial

Light

Full sun

Water

Water deeply during dry spells while young, then let it rely mostly on rain once established.

Soil

Deep, well-drained, neutral to slightly alkaline soil; tolerates sandy or loamy ground.

Temperature

Hardy in cold winters; grows well in warm summers, roots need a long season to develop; protect young seedlings from hard frost.

How easy

Moderate

Native range

E. European Russia to Siberia and Pakistan

Climate

temperate

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Glycyrrhiza uralensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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