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Reseda lutea
Also called Dyer's rocket, Dyers weld, Weld, Wild mignonette, Cut Leaf Mignonette, Hasadi, Khuzam
Reseda lutea, the yellow mignonette or wild mignonette, is a species of fragrant herbaceous flowering plant. Its leaves and flowers have been used to make a yellow dye called "weld" since the first millennium BC, although the related plant Reseda luteola was more widely used for that purpose.
A native of Eurasia and North Africa, the plant is present on other continents as an introduced species and a common weed. In Australia it is a noxious weed and pest of agricultural crops.
White upright mignonette · Weld · Reseda minoica · Garden mignonette · Rampion mignonette · Reseda viridis · Mignonette
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Reseda lutea 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.
