Rosmarinheide

Landscape Uses:Border, Container, Rock garden, Specimen. Requires a well-drained, moisture-retentive, lime-free, humus- rich soil and a shady position. Plants spread slowly by means of suckers when they are grown in a suitable position. A very ornamental plant, there are many named varieties. Special Features:North American native, Attractive flowers or blooms.

Edible Parts: Shoots Edible Uses: Tea The tender leaves and shoot-tips are boiled as an aromatic tea. A delicious drink. Some caution is advised since boiling the plant or infusing it in hot water is said to release a toxic chemical. It is safer to soak the leaves in a jar of water in direct sunlight to make 'sun tea'.

Tannin Tannin is obtained from the leaves and twigs.

Heimisch: Alaska, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, Chita, Connecticut, Czechia-Slovakia, DK, Denmark, East European Russia, England (N-England, Wales, S-Scotland); Ireland (Ireland, Northern Ireland); Denmark; Norway; Sweden; Finland; Netherlands; Belgium; Germany (Brandenburg, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, +Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen); Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Austria; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Hungary; France; Italy; Slovenia; Croatia; Romania; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Belarus; C-European Russia; E-European Russia; N-European Russia; W-European Russia; Ukraine; Siberia (Altai, Buryatia, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, W-Siberia, Yakutia); Russian Far East (Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Isl., Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin); North Korea; Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu); Alaska; Greenland; Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Labrador, Manitoba, Northern Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Isl., Québec, Saskatchewan, Yukon); USA (Connecticut, Idaho, New York, Washington State), Finland, Flanders, Flemish Region, France, GL, Germany, Global, Great Britain, Greenland, Hungary, IS, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Jølster, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Labrador, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, NO, NW. Balkan Pen., Netherlands, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, North America, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Poland, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Romania, SE, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South European Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tuva, Tynset, Türkiye, Ukraine, Velfjord, Vermont, Vermont-US, Walloon Region, Washington, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Yakutiya, Yukon