Asperula tinctoria
Dyer's Woodruff
About the plant
What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.
- Habit
- perennialPlants of the World Online
- Flower
- WhiteRead from the photograph on this page
- Native range
- Austria, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse (Corsica), Czechia-Slovakia and elsewhereGBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.
Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Read from the photograph on this page — Deno's Garden; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Worth knowing
- The ancient Greeks and Romans used the root of dyer's woodruff to make a red dye for clothing, though it gave less than the more widely used madder. Wikipedia: Asperula tinctoria
Protocol
DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993Difficulty High
Sow and cover
Temperature: 70°F 21°C
No stated waiting before sowing. Then 77 days to germinate.
25% germination in 56–77 days.
How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.
Germination trials
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