IMG_1828 - Vellugtende aftenstjerne, Natviol (Hesperis matronalis) [Dame's rocket] in my cottage garden, Rejnstrup, South Zealand 🇩🇰

Vellugtende aftenstjerne, Natviol (Hesperis matronalis)

 

Hesperis matronalis

- It has numerous

common names, including

 

dame's rocket, damask-violet, dame's-violet, dames-wort, dame's gilliflower, night-scented gilliflower, queen's gilliflower, rogue's gilliflower, summer lilac, sweet rocket, mother-of-the-evening, Good & Plenties, and winter gilliflower.

 

These plants are biennials or short-lived perennials, native to Eurasia, and cultivated in many other areas of the world for their attractive, spring-blooming flowers.

In some of those areas, it has escaped from cultivation and become a weed species.

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The genus name Hesperis was probably given because the scent of the flowers becomes more conspicuous towards the evening (Hespera is the Greek word for the evening).

 

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