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Blue Woodruff
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Blue Woodruff

Asperula arvensis

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

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Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Blue Woodruff in Six Groups of the History of Plants

Six Groups of the History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.373

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 59279.