| Asperula arvensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Genus: | Asperula |
| Species: | A. arvensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Asperula arvensis | |
Asperula arvensis, known as blue woodruff, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It belongs to the genus Asperula . [2] It is native to most of Europe plus Algeria, Morocco, and southwest Asia from Turkey to Kyrgyzstan.
Galium is a large genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the family Rubiaceae, occurring in the temperate zones of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Some species are informally known as bedstraw.
Sherardia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus contains only one species, viz. Sherardia arvensis or (blue) field madder, which is widespread across most of Europe and northern Africa as well as southwest and central Asia and Macaronesia. It is also reportedly naturalized in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Kerguelen, Ethiopia, Sudan, southern Africa, Mexico, Costa Rica, South America, Bermuda, Cuba, Haiti and much of Canada and the United States.
Asperula cynanchica, the squinancywort or squincywort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. Its common name is derived from its former use as a medicinal herb to cure quinsy. It is native to much of southern and central Europe from Spain and Ireland to Russia.
Asperula, commonly known as woodruff, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains about 195 species and has a wide distribution area from Europe, northern Africa, temperate and subtropical Asia to Australasia.
Asperula orientalis, known as annual woodruff or oriental woodruff, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Turkey, western Syria, Iraq, the Caucasus and Iran. It is often used as an ornamental plant in various regions and is reportedly naturalized in Oregon, North Dakota and the Czech Republic.
Rubieae is a tribe of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae and contains 970 species in 15 genera. The genus Galium is responsible for more than two thirds of the species in the tribe. The second largest genus is Asperula, which contains about 200 species. Unlike the rest of the family Rubiaceae, the tribe contains predominantly perennial and annual herbs with pseudowhorls of leaves and leaflike stipules and is centered in temperate and tropical-mountain regions.
Asperula gunnii, the mountain woodruff, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is a perennial herb that is endemic to Australia.
Asperula tinctoria, common name dyer's woodruff, is a plant in the family Rubiaceae, a native of much of northern and central Europe from France to Russia and also of Western Siberia.
Blue woodruff is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Asperula breviflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1849 and is endemic to Syria.
Asperula crassula is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, endemic to a few hundred hectares in northeast Crete. It was first described in 1857.
Asperula involucrata is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae.
Asperula lilaciflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae.
Asperula nitida is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It was first described in 1806 and is endemic to Turkey.
Asperula scoparia is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It was first described in 1847 and is endemic to Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales in Australia.
Asperula taurina is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It was first described in 1753 and is endemic to Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Crimea, Romania, Switzerland, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Montenegro. It was also introduced to Denmark, Germany, and Great Britain.
Asperula sintenisii is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae.
Asperula wimmeriana is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It was first described in 1928 and is endemic to south east Australia.
Asperula accrescens is a deciduous species of perennial groundcover, and a flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, known as Woodruff, and is endemic to Transcaucasus, and was first named by Klokov.
Asperula assamica is a deciduous species of perennial groundcover, and a flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, known as Woodruff, and is endemic to Assam, East Himalayas, and was first named by Meisn.
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