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woad
Isatis tinctoria
Isatis tinctoria, also called woad (/ˈwoʊd/), dyer's woad, or glastum, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is occasionally known as Asp of Jerusalem. Woad is also the name of a blue dye produced from the leaves of the plant. Woad is native to the steppe and desert zones of the Caucasus, Central Asia to Eastern Siberia and Western Asia (per Hegi) but is now also found in South-Eastern and Central Europe and western...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Corpus of Latin Medical Writers (Corpus Medicorum Latinorum), Vol. IV
Various · 1927 · p.162
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.365
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.366
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.228
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.364
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.363
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.347
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.355
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.328
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.443
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.443
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.806
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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 77509.