Asperula_tinctoria

<i>Asperula tinctoria</i>

Asperula tinctoria

Species of plant

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]
    Kew World Checklist for Selected Plant Families, Asperula tinctoria
  2. [2]
    "Dyer's Woodruff, Asperula tinctoria - Flowers - NatureGate". luontoportti.com. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
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    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.
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    Hylander, Nils. 1945. Uppsala Universitets Arsskrift 7: 298, Galium triandrum
  5. [5]
    Soó von Bere, Károly Rezsö. 1974. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 85: 435, Asperula tinctoria subsp. hungarorum
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    Jávorka, Sándor. 1925. Magyar Flóra 1037, Asperula hungarorum
  7. [7]
    Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.
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