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Madders
Rubia
Rubia is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It contains around 80 species of perennial scrambling or climbing herbs and subshrubs native to the Old World. The genus and its best-known species are commonly known as madder, e.g. Rubia tinctorum (common madder), Rubia peregrina (wild madder), and Rubia cordifolia (Indian madder).
49 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Wild Madder
speciesRubia peregrina
Indian Madder
speciesRubia cordifolia
Madder
speciesRubia tinctorum
East Asian madder
speciesRubia argyi
Tasaigo
speciesRubia fruticosa
Thin-leaved Madder
speciesRubia tenuifolia
Rubia occidens
speciesRubia occidens
Rubia linii
speciesRubia linii
Rubia lanceolata
speciesRubia lanceolata
Rubia petiolaris
speciesRubia petiolaris
Rubia horrida
speciesRubia horrida
Azores madder
speciesRubia agostinhoi
Rubia chinensis
speciesRubia chinensis
Rubia truppeliana
speciesRubia truppeliana
Rubia tatarica
speciesRubia tatarica
Rubia ovatifolia
speciesRubia ovatifolia
Rubia balearica
speciesRubia balearica
Rubia jesoensis
speciesRubia jesoensis
Cyprus Madder
speciesRubia laurae
Rubia manjith
speciesRubia manjith
Rubia alata
speciesRubia alata
Rubia sylvatica
speciesRubia sylvatica
Rubia podantha
speciesRubia podantha
Rubia infundibularis
speciesRubia infundibularis
Rubia wallichiana
speciesRubia wallichiana
Rubia florida
speciesRubia florida
Rubia danaensis
speciesRubia danaensis
Rubia tibetica
speciesRubia tibetica
Rubia regelii
speciesRubia regelii
Rubia albicaulis
speciesRubia albicaulis
Rubia schumanniana
speciesRubia schumanniana
Rubia oncotricha
speciesRubia oncotricha
Rubia hexaphylla
speciesRubia hexaphylla
Rubia davisiana
speciesRubia davisiana
Rubia laevissima
speciesRubia laevissima
Rubia gedrosiaca
speciesRubia gedrosiaca
Rubia transcaucasica
speciesRubia transcaucasica
Rubia krascheninnikovii
speciesRubia krascheninnikovii
Rubia deserticola
speciesRubia deserticola
Rubia cretacea
speciesRubia cretacea
Rubia haematantha
speciesRubia haematantha
Rubia thunbergii
speciesRubia thunbergii
Rubia mandersii
speciesRubia mandersii
Rubia caramanica
speciesRubia caramanica
Rubia rigidifolia
speciesRubia rigidifolia
Rubia rezniczenkoana
speciesRubia rezniczenkoana
Rubia pavlovii
speciesRubia pavlovii
Rubia alaica
speciesRubia alaica
Rubia membranacea
speciesRubia membranacea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.150
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.281
Herbarius
1485 · p.254
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.251
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.254
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.376
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.376
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.306
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.377
Herbal of Virtues
1499 · p.253
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.115
Garden of Health
1507 · p.304
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Rubia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 82852.