Diptam

Landscape Uses:Border, Foundation, Massing, Rock garden, Specimen, Woodland garden. An easily grown plant, succeeding in ordinary garden soil. It prefers a dry sunny position with some lime and is not suitable for heavy or damp soils. Established plants are drought tolerant. A very ornamental plant, it should be planted into its permanent position as soon as possible because it dislikes root disturbance. The whole plant contains a very aromatic essential oil, giving out a scent somewhat like lemon peel. When the plant is bruised, this smell becomes more like fine balsam. This essential oil is emitted from the plant in hot weather and, on a still day, can be ignited and will burn for a second or two without harming the plant, thus giving the plant its common name. Slugs are strongly attracted to this plant and can destroy it by eating all the young growth in spring[K]. There are at least 2 named varieties, 'Pink' produces a tea with a less lemony flavour but with an added taste of almonds and vanilla, 'White' has a lemony fragrance and taste. The flowers are very attractive to bees. Special Features: Attractive foliage, Edible, Fragrant foliage, Not North American native, All or parts of this plant are poisonous, Suitable for cut flowers, Suitable for dried flowers, Fragrant flowers.

Edible Parts: Edible Uses: Tea A lemon-scented tea is made from the dried leaves. Refreshing and aromatic.

Essential The plant contains an essential oil. Yields from the fresh flowering plant are around 3% on a dry weight basis. This oil is used as a cosmetic.

Heimisch: Albania, Altay, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern [I], Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen); Switzerland; Austria; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Hungary; Spain; Italy; Slovenia; Croatia; Bosnia & Hercegovina; Montenegro; Serbia; Kosovo; North Macedonia; Albania; Romania; Bulgaria; Greece (scattered N-Greece, rare C-Greece, mountains of SE-Peloponnisos, Kerkyra); E-European Russia; Ukraine; Crimea; Siberia (Altay); Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Georgia [Caucasus]; Turkey (Inner Anatolia, N-Anatolia, NE-Anatolia, S-Anatolia, SSW-Anatolia); Iran (N-Iran, Iranian Aserbaijan); Afghanistan (Takhar); Syria (coastal W-Syria); Pakistan (Chitral, Swat, Hazara); NW-India (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand); USA [I] (Michigan [I], New York [I], Vermont [I]), Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, NO, NW. Balkan Pen., North America, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Sinai, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vermont-US, West Himalaya, conterminous 48 United States Eingeführt: HR, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York, SE, Vermont