Serratula tinctoria

RHS Plant Profile
saw wort

Other common names

dyer's savory

Botanical Details

Family
Asteraceae
Native to GB/Ireland
Yes
Genus
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