General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 32 - 40 inches
Plant Spread: 24 40 inches
Leaves: Deciduous
Fragrant
Broadleaf
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Late spring or early summer
Summer
Uses: Culinary Herb
Medicinal Herb
Will Naturalize
Suitable as Annual
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Stratify seeds: 6 weeks if you sow indoors
Depth to plant seed: 1/4 inch
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: it is said that the seeds are only viable shortly, but if you winter sow these seeds they are still viable after 3 years. Seedlings can handle transplanting very well when they are small.
Pollinators: Beetles
Flies
Bees

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Common names
  • Sweet Cicely

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Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-05-28
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2010-05-28
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2009-05-14
Location: Riverview, Robson, B.C.
Date: 2007-05-22
- Seed heads taste like liquorice or anise.
Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2009-10-03
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2014-03-30
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2009-05-10
Location: Central Pennsylvania
Date: 2020-06-20
Location: Heathcote Ontario Canada
Date: 2001  August
Myrrhis odorata   seedpods
Location: in my garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-06-01
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2009-05-10
Location: Hortus Camera Lapidea
Date: 2009-05-10

Date: 2012-06-18

Courtesy Outsidepride
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Courtesy Outsidepride
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Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-05-11
Location: Nature Reserve Gent, Belgium
Date: 2008-04-21

Courtesy Seeds of Victoria
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Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-05-01
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-05-09
Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2014-03-13
Emerging in spring
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2010-05-03
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2010-05-06
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2015-07-06
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2009-05-11
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-05-01
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-05-01
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Comments:
  • Posted by Bonehead (Planet Earth - Zone 8b) on Oct 28, 2012 2:30 PM concerning plant:
    Native in the Pacific NW. The green seed pods taste like licorice and can be eaten as a snack or added to salads.
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