Lavendar Dame’s Rocket Spring 2016 Outdoor Cushion

Lavendar Dame’s Rocket Spring 2016 Outdoor Throw Pillow Taken 05.28.2016 Lavendar Dame’s Rocket in Stillwater, Maine. Its scientific name is Hesperis matronalis and is a herbaceous plant species in the mustard family, Brassicaceae. 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 and winter gilliflower. Worth growing for its delicious ­­­­­­fra­grance­ alone, likened to a mixture of clove and violet, dame’s rocket also offers showy, long-lasting flowers. Dame’s rocket is an erect, branching plant that may reach 4 feet tall and 18 inches wide. Its roots, according to the English herbalist Gerard, are “slender and threddie”, and its pointed, hairy alternate leaves are “somewhat snipt about the edges”; the lower ones have short stalks and may be as long as 4 inches, while the upper ones are stalkless and smaller. Loose terminal clusters of four-petaled, 3/4-inch-wide lavender, pink, or white flowers bloom in the late spring and early summer.PC:470.548