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Alkanna tinctoria
About
Alkanna tinctoria, the dyer's alkanet or simply alkanet, is a herbaceous flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae. Its roots are used to produce a red dye. The plant is also known as dyers' bugloss, orchanet, Spanish bugloss, or Languedoc bugloss. It is native to the Mediterranean region.
- Family
- Boraginaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Alkanna tinctoria
- Slug
- alkanna-tinctoria
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Alkanna
- Species
- tinctoria
- Wikidata QID
- Q856964
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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