Woad
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name for a perennial plant (Isatis tinctoria) of the family Cruciferae (mustard family) and for a blue dye obtained from its leaves.
Woad belongs to a genus spread over Southern Europe and Western Asia, and from having been much cultivated in many parts of Asia and Europe, has become established in stony and waste places as far north as Sweden.
Woad has captured popular imagination as producing the blue dye for body paint used by the Celts. Learn the history and modern uses of this yellow-flowered garden beauty.
Fire Blight Disease ...
Dyer's woad Isatis tinctoria
earleaf acacia Acacia auriculiformis
East Indian almond Terminalia myriocarpa
Eastern or Northern white cedar Thuja occidentalis
eastern redcedar Juniperus virginiana
edible fig, common fig, fig tree Ficus carica ...
Isatis - A small group of perennials, with little garden value; the Dyers Woad, a native plant (Isatis tinctoria) is interesting as yielding the blue dye with which the ancient Britons painted their bodies.
Dyer's woad (Isatis tinctoria)
Giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta)
Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata)
Meadow knapweed (Centaurea pratensis)
Mediterranean sage (Salvia aethiopis)
Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)
Myrtle spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites) ...
Other beds display dye plants such as indigo and woad, and fragrant plants, which the Shakers used in potpourris. Culinary plants are also represented.
Madder, Wild Mignonette, Wild Oat, Wild Pansy, Wild Parsnip, Wild Pink, Wild Plum, Wild Privet, Wild Radish, Wild Service Tree, Wild Strawberry, Wild Thyme, Wild Tulip, Wild Turnip, Wineberry, Winter Aconite, Winter Heliotrope, Winter Wild Oat, Woad, ...
 See also: Green, Medic, Indigo, Coffee, May
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