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Osmorhiza claytonii
Also called Hairy Sweet Cicely, Clayton's Sweet Cicely, Bland Sweet Cicely, Woolly Sweet Cicely, Clayton Sweetroot, Clayton's Sweet Root, Sweet Javril
Clayton's sweetroot is a hairy North American perennial herb of the carrot family, native to rich woods and wooded slopes in eastern North America. It is grown mainly as a native woodland or shade-garden plant rather than as a houseplant.
Osmorhiza claytonii is a North American perennial herb, native to Canada and the eastern United States. It is also known as Clayton's sweetroot, sweet cicely, or woolly sweet cicely a name it shares with other members of its genus Osmorhiza.
Small to medium-sized bees, wasps, flies, and beetles feed on the nectar and pollen of the flowers. The caterpillars of the butterfly Papilio polyxenes (Black Swallowtail) feed on the foliage.
Aristate Sweetroot · Sweetcicely · California sweetcicely · Bluntseed sweetroot · Longstyle sweetroot · Western sweetroot · Sweetroot
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Osmorhiza claytonii 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.
