''Asperula tinctoria'', common name dyer's woodruff, is a

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in the family

Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules a ...

, a native of much of northern and central

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from

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and also of

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Uses

The root is used by the ancient Greeks and Romans to make a red dye for clothing, but is less productive than the more widely used madder '' Rubia tinctorum''.Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.

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