2026-04-15 22:08 UTC
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Common names: dyer's greenweed, dyer's broom, dyer's whin, waxen woad, waxen wood
Used in yellow dye, and for green when combined with woad - which I learn is still cultivated as a blue dye for (among other things) printer ink!
Woad link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria
You have to check out the GBIF link - this dyer's greenweed has SO MANY names in Welsh! (https://www.gbif.org/species/5347612) I count about 9, *plus* several apparently minor variants!
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