dyer's weed
dyer's greenweed
greenweed
woodwaxen
woadwaxen
Genista tinctoria latin
dyeweed

The area close to Scratchwood is acid grassland which has uncommon species such as dyer's greenweed and heath speedwell.

Hairy Greenweed (Genista pilosa)

Dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria)

Its other common names include dyer's greenweed, dyer's whin, waxen woad and waxen wood.

Woolen cloth mordanted with alum and dyed yellow with dyer's greenweed was overdyed with woad and, later, indigo, to produce the once-famous Kendal green.

Herbs include Oxeye Daisy, Devil's-bit Scabious, Yellow Rattle and Dyer's Greenweed.

Two rare species, Bristle Bent (Agrostis curtisii) and Hairy Greenweed (Genista pilosa), are associated with the community.

Other prominent plants are herbs, including many species with a local distribution among them; Saw-wort (Serratula tinctoria) and dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria).

Herbs include Dyer's Greenweed, Saw-wort, Adder's-tongue, Common Knapweed, Betony and Pepper Saxifrage.

Dyer's Greenweed, for instance, has been used since Saxon times to colour wool; it's the colour of Robin Hood's jerkin and the tunics worn at Agincourt.

The unimproved limestone grassland supports varied and colourful plants such as Dyer's Greenweed, Devil's-bit Scabious, Common spotted orchid and Fleabane.

The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago, and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability, such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss.

Cowslip, Dyer's greenweed, Common spotted orchids and bird's-foot trefoil are amongst the flowers to be found, and numerous butterflies include Meadow Brown, Marbled White and Large Skipper.

Genista pilosa, commonly known as hairy greenweed, Vancouver Gold and Creeping Broom Gold Flash Broom is a plant species in the genus Genista.

Genista tinctoria (dyer's broom, also known as dyer's greenweed or dyer's greenwood), provides a useful yellow dye and was grown commercially for this purpose in parts of Britain into the early 19th century.

Along the cliff top, there can be found Dyer's greenweed - Genista tinctoria, western gorse - Ulex gallii, heather - Calluna vulgaris and bracken - Pteridium aquilinum.

Less frequent species are Ladys-mantle Alchemilla vulgaris, Dyers Greenweed Genista tinctoria, Corky-fruited Water-dropwort Oenanthe pimpinelloides, Adders-tongue Ophioglossum vulgatum.

In late summer Pyramidal Orchid, Autumn Gentian, Clustered Bellflower, Carline Thistle, Betony, Yellow-wort, Margoram, Zigzag Clover, Small Scabious and Dyer's Greenweed flower.

The soil types on which it stands are complex and support a wide range of plants, including the chalk loving yellow-wort and dwarf thistle, dyer's greenweed, a feature of neutral soils and gorse which is associated with more acid soils.

Woollen cloth, mordanted with alum, was dyed yellow with dyer's greenweed, then dipped into a vat of blue dye (woad or, later, indigo) to produce the once-famous "Kendal Green" (largely superseded by the brighter "Saxon Green" in the 1770s).

But as the type species of Hübner's genus is the Greenweed Flat-body Moth - originally described as Tinea atomella, but nowadays called Agonopterix atomella -, Tichonia is actually a junior synonym of Agonopterix.

The dyers of Lincoln, a great cloth town in the high Middle Ages, produced the Lincoln green cloth associated with Robin Hood by dyeing wool with woad and then overdyeing it yellow with weld or dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria), also known as dyer's broom.

Yellow was obtained from the flowers of the woadwaxen, and gold from onion skins.

It was also the only place in Halland north of the river Ätran wheren Silky leaf woadwaxen could be found.

The larvae feed on Genista tinctoria.

Genista tinctoria (I)

Dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria)

Genistein was first isolated in 1899 from the dyer's broom, Genista tinctoria; hence, the chemical name derived from the generic name.

Genista tinctoria (dyer's broom) is a species of flowering plant of the family Fabaceae, native to meadows and pastures in Europe and Turkey.

The larvae are polyphagous, feeding on a variety of herbaceous plants, including Genista tinctoria, Hieracium, Lotus and Plantago.

Other prominent plants are herbs, including many species with a local distribution among them; Saw-wort (Serratula tinctoria) and dyer's greenweed (Genista tinctoria).

Genista tinctoria (dyer's broom, also known as dyer's greenweed or dyer's greenwood), provides a useful yellow dye and was grown commercially for this purpose in parts of Britain into the early 19th century.

Along the cliff top, there can be found Dyer's greenweed - Genista tinctoria, western gorse - Ulex gallii, heather - Calluna vulgaris and bracken - Pteridium aquilinum.

The larvae feed on Cytisus scoparius, Lembotropis nigricans, Genista scorpius, Genista tinctoria, Spartium junceum and Ulex europaeus.

Genista tinctoria (yellow) overdyed with woad (blue) produced the colour to which Shakespeare's Falstaff referred in Henry IV : 'Three misbegotten knaves in Kendal Green', Falstaff being one.

The larvae feed on Genista tinctoria, Genista ratisbonensis, Cytisus hirsutus, Colutea arborescens, Chamaecytisus, Astragalus glycyphyllos and Corothamus procumbens.

Less frequent species are Ladys-mantle Alchemilla vulgaris, Dyers Greenweed Genista tinctoria, Corky-fruited Water-dropwort Oenanthe pimpinelloides, Adders-tongue Ophioglossum vulgatum.

The larvae feed on various Fabaceae species, including Cytisus scoparius, Genista (mainly Genista tinctoria, Dorycnium, Scabiosa, Rumex, Polygonum, Thymus and Asperula.

The larvae feed on Astragalus, Chamaecytisus supinus, Genista tinctoria, Laburnocytisus adamii, Laburnum alpinum, Laburnum anagyroides, Lupinus polyphyllus and Petteria ramentacea.

The larvae feed on Cytisus scoparius, Cytisus purgans, Genista species (records include Genista tinctoria, Genista pilosa, Genista germanica and Genista sagittalis).

The largest species of broom is Mount Etna broom (Genista aetnensis), which can make a small tree to 10 m tall; by contrast, some other species, e.g. dyer's broom Genista tinctoria, are low sub-shrubs, barely woody at all.

The larvae feed on Chamaecytisus hirsutus, Cytisus scoparius, Cytisus sessilifolius, Genista germanica, Genista sericea, Genista tinctoria, Laburnum anagyroides, Lembotropis nigricans, Lupinus and Petteria ramentacea.

The dyers of Lincoln, a cloth town in the high Middle Ages, produced the cloth by dyeing it with woad (Isatis tinctoria) to give it a strong blue, then overdyeing it yellow with weld (Reseda luteola) or dyers' broom, Genista tinctoria.