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Serratula tinctoria

saw wort

Other common names
dyer's savory
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Botanical details
Family
Asteraceae
Native to GB / Ireland
Yes
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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