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Dyer's Alkanet
Alkanna tinctoria
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.
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Description
Alkanna tinctoria has a bright blue flower. The root is blackish outside, blue-red inside, with a whitish core. It is native to the Mediterranean region. A. tinctoria has 30 chromosomes and is regarded as a dysploid at the tetraploid level (4x + 2).
Range & habitat
The subspecies Alkanna tinctoria ssp. tinctoria is distributed all around the Mediterranean and the Balkans, and eastwards to Ukraine, but is absent from the Alpine region, Corsica and the Balearic Islands. It is introduced in Germany. The species has a large number of synonyms, starting with Linnaeus's Anchusa tinctoria in 1762.
Wikipedia: “Taxonomy and distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 210414.