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Blue woodruff

Asperula arvensis

Also called Field Woodruff

Blue woodruff
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Medit., C. Europe to C. Asia
Climate
temperate

About

Asperula arvensis, known as blue woodruff, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It belongs to the genus Asperula. It is native to most of Europe plus Algeria, Morocco, and southwest Asia from Turkey to Kyrgyzstan.

Other Asperula plants

Asperula acuminata · Asperula albiflora · Asperula ambleia · Asperula assamica · Asperula asterocephala · Asperula asthenes · Asperula brachyantha · Asperula conferta · Asperula gunnii · Asperula involucrata · Asperula libanotica · Oriental asperula

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asperula arvensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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