dyer's greenweed in English
noun
1
a bushy, yellow-flowered Eurasian plant of the pea family, which has become naturalized in North America. The flowers were formerly used to make a yellow or green dye.
A visit to the reserve in the summer is recommended as this is when the grassland flowers are at their best, including dyer's greenweed , pepper-saxifrage, oxeye daisy and corky-fruited water-dropwort.
noun
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1. 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then dipped into a vat of blue dye (woad or, later, indigo) to produce the once-famous "Kendal Green" (largely superseded by the brighter "Saxon Green" in the 1770s).