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Serratula tinctoria (Saw-wort)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Serratula tinctoria, commonly known as dyer's plumeless saw-wort or saw-wort, is a species in the genus Serratula. It is a native of Europe and a thistle like flower head. It grows in moist soil, full sun to part shade, and grows up to one metre tall. This is an introduced plant in a small area of the northeastern United States, where it is called the Dyer's plumeless saw-wort.
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Infraspecies

Serratula tinctoria tinctoria
Serratula tinctoria var. alpina
Serratula tinctoria var. reducta
Serratula tinctoria var. seoanei
Serratula tinctoria var. tinctoria

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Flies, Bees
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [1]  A fine yellow dye is obtained from the juice of the plant, it is very durable;
Height [1]  39 inches (1 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Golovinomyces cichoracearum[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0