meadowsweet

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Noun — A Eurasian perennial plant of the rose family with clusters of small, fragrant creamy-white flowers, traditionally used to flavour mead.

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a bunch of meadowsweet meadowsweet flowers a meadowsweet hedgerow

It is a plain botanical and everyday name, equally at home in gardening talk and nature writing.

The name is a reshaping of the earlier phrase mead sweet, referring to the plant's traditional use in flavouring mead, the honey-based drink.

What is meadowsweet used for?

It was traditionally used to flavour mead, and its flowers and scent are still valued in gardens and hedgerows.

Is meadowsweet the same as Spiraea?

The name covers both the Eurasian plant Filipendula ulmaria and, more broadly, shrubs of the genus Spiraea.

Where does meadowsweet grow?

It grows across the temperate Northern Hemisphere, commonly along riverbanks, hedgerows and damp meadows.