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Serratula tinctoria
dyer's savory
Other common names
saw wortSynonyms
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Botanical details
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Serratula
- Genus description
Serratula are perennial plants with distinctly serrate but not spiny leaves, and knapweed-like heads of usually purplish flowers set in numerous, overlapping involucral bracts, often brownish and chaffy
- Name status
Correct
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