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Rubia peregrina (Wild Madder)

Synonyms: Galium peregrinum; Rubia anglica; Rubia angustifolia; Rubia angustifolia requienii; Rubia aucheri; Rubia barcinonensis; Rubia bocconii; Rubia clementii; Rubia dalmatica; Rubia erratica; Rubia fontqueri; Rubia grandifolia; Rubia longifolia; Rubia lucida; Rubia peregrina angustifolia; Rubia peregrina dalmatica; Rubia peregrina longifolia; Rubia peregrina lucida; Rubia peregrina requienii; Rubia peregrina splendens; Rubia reiseri; Rubia requienii; Rubia splendens

Attributes

Height [1]  3 inches (0.1 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [2]  Mostly Dry
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Shrub
Usage [1]  A red dye is obtained from the roots;
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Map Climate Land Use
Bosco Nordio 388 Italy  
Colli Euganei - Monte Lozzo - Monte Ricco 37303 Italy  
Lido di Venezia: biotopi litoranei 410 Italy  
Luberon Regional Nature Park V 406572 France  
Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park II 33648 Italy
PUNTA ENTINAS-SABINAR 4806 Spain  
Reserva de la Biosfera de Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve V 1777 Spain  
Valle Vecchia - Zumelle - Valli di Bibione 5162 Italy  

Predators

Acherontia atropos (Death's-head hawk moth)[4]
Dysaphis pyri[4]
Eriophyes rubiae <Unverified Name>[4]
Erithacus rubecula (European Robin)[5]
Hyles gallii (Bedstraw Hawk-Moth)[4]
Macroglossum stellatarum (Hummingbird Hawk-Moth)[6]
Mecyna asinalis[4]
Schizomyia galiorum[4]
Sylvia atricapilla (Eurasian Blackcap)[5]
Sylvia borin (Garden Warbler)[7]
Sylvia melanocephala (Sardinian Warbler)[5]

Distribution

Macaronesia, NW. Europe to Medit.; NW. Europe, Medit., Macaronesia;

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Photos

Citations

Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons License ♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants ♦ 5A STUDY OF AVIAN FRUGIVORES, BIRD-DISPERSED PLANTS, AND THElR INTERACTION IN MEDITERRANEAN SCRUBLANDS, CARLOS M. HERRERA, Ecological Monographs, 54(1), 1984, pp. 1-23 ♦ 6HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández ♦ 7DIET, FRUIT CHOICE AND VARIATION IN BODY CONDITION OF FRUGIVOROUS WARBLERS IN MEDITERRANEAN SCRUBLAND, PEDRO JORDANO, Ardea 76 (1988): 193-209
Protected Areas provided by Natura 2000, UK data: © Crown copyright and database right [2010] All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100017955 ♦ Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas in cooperation between the Information Center for the Environment at the University of California, Davis and numerous collaborators.
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