Lady's bedstraw

Perennial with clusters of small yellow flowers with a honey like scent. It was traditionally used to stuff mattresses and the hay like smell of the dried leaves was said to help repel fleas. It was also used to curdle milk for cheese making and as a dye and was used to give Double Gloucester cheese its distinctive colour. Good for bees and butterflies and food for the caterpillar of the Hummingbird Hawk-moth.