Myrica gale
Common name: sweetgale, bog myrtle
Family: Myricaceae
Leaf: spirally-arranged, simple, 2-5cm long, oblanceolate, with a tapered base and a broader tip, and a crinkled or finely-toothed margin
Flowers: catkins, dioecious
Fruit: small drupe
Habit: suckering, deciduous shrub; Form: mounded
Height: up to 6': Spread: up to 4'
Culture: Best grown in a moist soil in full sun to light shade, with well-drained soil. Prefers a soil leaning towards acidic. Do not let soils dry out between waterings. Has high water needs. Forms thickets, as it is a suckering shrub; therefore it can be coppiced. An excellent plant for fixing nitorgen! Can succeed in water-logged soils. Flowers usually produced on one-year old wood. A generally pleasantly-aromatic plant. Hardy in USDA zones 2-9.
Uses: bog gardens, water gardens, wet areas of the garden, edges of a pond, stream. Keep in mind- will spread and form a thicket if not tended to!
Origin: North America, North and Western Europe
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