Reseda luteaL. Yellow Mignotte

Reseda luteaL. - Yellow Mignotte

Scientific Description:

Annual to perennial herbs with stems erect or ascending to 70 cm. Lower most leaves sometimes entire, usually with all leaves narrow, tri- or pinnatifid. Sepals 5−6, persistent and becoming twisted in fruit. Petals 6, yellow, the limbs trilobed, and with the lateral lobes lunulate, entire, crenulate and occasionally more deeply divided into irregular segments; the midle lobes shorter and entire. Capsules cylindrical, sometimes ovate or even subglobose, or triquetrous, glabrous. Seeds yellow to black, shiny, ± smooth.

 

var. lutea Fisch. & Mey.

Capsules always erect.

 

Flowering time: April−August.

Habitat: Ubiquitous, roadsides, fields, ditches, open stony hillsides, etc., s.l.−2000 m.

 

Reference:

Coode MJE (1965). Reseda lutea L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1: 502.

Public Description:

Reseda lutea, commonly known as “yellow mignotte” or “wild mignotte”, is native to Eurasia and North Africa, but is a common weed on other continents as an introduced species. It is an annual, biennial or perennial fragrant herbaceous plants with yellow flowers and reach up to 70 cm in length. Up to the first millennium BC yellow dye was obtained from the roots of yellow mignotte. The use of this dye was abandoned at the beginning of the 20th century, when cheaper synthetic yellow colors were used. The spikes of small flowers are an excellent source of pollen and nectar for butterflies and bees. It blooms between April and August, and is found in roadsides, fields, ditches, open stony hillsides.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). http://wildseed.co.uk/species/view/115 /,Accessed date: 21.05.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reseda_lutea / ,Accessed date: 21.05.2016.

Kanoğlu S S (2012). Reseda L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 787–788.