Common Name: Rosemary

Scientific Name:  Rosmarinus officinalis

Plant Family: Lamiaceae (Mint Family)

Primary Uses

Edible Parts: 

• All three aspects can be consumed raw or cooked 
• Leaves
  • frequently used as a seasoning
  • dried leaves can be used to brew rosemary or other varieties of tea
• Flowers
  • this part has a milder flavor  than the leaves and can be used also as seasoning
  • this area of the plant is most commonly used in jams, soups, and pastries 
• Young Shoots
  • premature rosemary plants can also be consumed though it is lesson common than eating the leaves or flower

Medicinal Uses:

• beneficial to an individual’s mental health, especially useful for treating anxiety
• strengthens immune system
  • Rosemary is a common essential oil to use for these ailments

Other Beneficial Uses

• attracts beneficial insects
• also repels certain individual
  • used to attract or deter bugs in a variety of different garden guilds

Meaning of Scientific Name: 

• Ros-dew
• marinus- sea
  • Rosmarinus- latin for dew of the sea
  • Offiinalis- latin for orgnaism                     

Designing with this Plant

USDA Hardiness Zones: 6-9

Forest garden layer: herbaceous

 

Works Cited

Effects of rosemary, thyme and lemongrass oils and theirmajor constituents on detoxifying enzyme activity and insecticidal activity in Trichoplusia ni.Pesticide Biochemistry & Physiology, 1409-16. doi:10.1016/j.pestbp.2017.01.012

Macmillan, A. (2006). Homegrown Healing. Prevention, 58(3), 115-117.(n.d.).

Rosmarinus officinalis - L. Retrieved April 16, 2018, from https://www.pfaf.org/USER/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Rosmarinus officinalisTak, J., Jovel, E., & Isman, M. B. (2017).