Asperula tinctoria

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Dyer's woodruff
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Asperula tinctoria in flower
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Genus: Asperula
Species:
A. tinctoria
Binomial name
Asperula tinctoria
L.
Synonyms [1]
  • Galium tinctorium(L.) Scop.
  • Asterophyllum tinctorium(L.) Schimp. & Spenn. in F.C.L.Spenner
  • Cynanchica tinctoria(L.) Fourr.
  • Galium triandrumHyl.

Asperula tinctoria, common name dyer's woodruff, [2] 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. [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Uses

The root was used by the ancient Greeks and Romans to make a red dye for clothing, but was less productive than the more widely used madder Rubia tinctorum . [7]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist for Selected Plant Families, Asperula tinctoria
  2. ↑ "Dyer's Woodruff, Asperula tinctoria - Flowers - NatureGate". luontoportti.com. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
  3. ↑ Linné, Carl von; Salvius, Lars (1753). Caroli Linnaei ... Species plantarum :exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas... Vol. 1. Holmiae: Impensis Laurentii Salvii.
  4. ↑ Hylander, Nils. 1945. Uppsala Universitets Arsskrift 7: 298, Galium triandrum
  5. ↑ Soó von Bere, Károly Rezsö. 1974. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 85: 435, Asperula tinctoria subsp. hungarorum
  6. ↑ Jávorka, Sándor. 1925. Magyar Flóra 1037, Asperula hungarorum
  7. ↑ Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.


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