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Rubia peregrina

Botanic Family

Rubiaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Wild Madder
• Levant Madder

Geographical Habitats

• Albania
• Algeria
• France
• Great Britain
• Greece
• Ireland
• Italy
• Libya
• Morocco
• Portugal
• Spain
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Yugoslavia

Natural Habitats

• Hedges
• thickets
• scrubland
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug

Fruiting Times

Herbaceous perennial evergreen with creeping or scrambling glabrous stems with downwardly directed prickles, 6mm yellow-green flowers in terminal & axillary cymes, 6mm black fruits, leaves glabrous above, with hooked prickles on margins of leaves & angles of stem & lobes of corolla

Further References

• Huxley 1992
• FOBI
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• Kew