Gemeiner Augentrost (Wildform)
Variety
Gemeiner Augentrost (Wildform)
created by Elly‘s Grüne Welt at 09.03.2026
Season Overview
Sowing
Harvest
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Description
Eyebright is a small wild plant with delicate white to light purple flowers. It is a traditional medicinal plant. It prefers to grow in meadows and pastures and tends to remain low to the ground.
Frostproof
Growing tips
Sow in a grassy area or meadow, eyebright is a semi-parasitic plant. Only press the seeds down lightly and do not fertilize. Cut dense, tall grass beforehand and rake out.
Details
Light requirement
Sunny
Water requirement
Dry
Soil
Light (sandy)
Nutrient requirement
Low
Light germinator
Germination temperature
5 - 15 °C (Degrees Celsius)
Plant distance
10 cm
Row spacing
15 cm
Seeding depth
0.1 cm
Companion Plants
Antagonistic Plants
Blueberry
Clover / Trefoil
Funk
Grasses - Bamboos
Grasses - Cottongrasses
Grasses - feather-bristled grasses, lamp-cleaning grasses
Grasses - Pampas grass
Grasses - reeds, cattails, bulrushes
Grasses - Sedges, Rushes
Hellebores
Ivy
Lemongrass
Make
Mosses
Sorrel
Stinging nettle
Succulents
Sweet woodruff / Sweetscented bedstraw
Thistles
Diseases
Septoria
Root Rot
Angular leaf spot of cucumber
Pests
Caterpillars
Aphids
Land snails
Voles
