Asperula

Asperula, commonly known as woodruff, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 91 species and has a wide distribution area from Europe, northern Africa, temperate and subtropical Asia to Australasia.

Species

These species are recognised in the genus Asperula:

• Asperula acuminata
• Asperula albiflora
• Asperula ambleia
• Asperula anatolica
• Asperula apuana
• Asperula arvensis - blue woodruff
• Asperula assamica
• Asperula asterocephala
• Asperula asthenes - trailing woodruff
• Asperula azerbaidjanica
• Asperula badachschenica
• Asperula balchanica
• Asperula bargyli
• Asperula botschantzevii
• Asperula brachyantha
• Asperula cankiriensis
• Asperula charophyton - strapleaf woodruff
• Asperula ciliatula
• Asperula cilicia
• Asperula comosa
• Asperula conferta - common woodruff
• Asperula congesta
• Asperula crassula
• Asperula cunninghamii - twining woodruff
• Asperula cymulosa
• Asperula czukavinae
• Asperula dasyantha
• Asperula euryphylla
• Asperula fedtschenkoi
• Asperula fidanii
• Asperula fragillima
• Asperula friabilis
• Asperula galioides
• Asperula gemella - twin-leaved bedstraw
• Asperula geminifolia
• Asperula glabrata
• Asperula glomerata
• Asperula gobica
• Asperula gobicola
• Asperula gracilis
• Asperula gunnii - mountain woodruff
• Asperula hoskingii
• Asperula insignis
• Asperula insolita
• Asperula involucrata
• Asperula karategini
• Asperula kotschyana
• Asperula kovalevskiana
• Asperula kryloviana
• Asperula laevigata
• Asperula lasiantha - Korean woodruff
• Asperula libanotica
• Asperula majoriflora
• Asperula minima
• Asperula molluginoides
• Asperula nuratensis
• Asperula oblanceolata
• Asperula oppositifolia
• Asperula orientalis - blue woodruff
• Asperula pauciflora
• Asperula perpusilla
• Asperula podlechii
• Asperula polymera
• Asperula popovii
• Asperula × portae
• Asperula prostrata
• Asperula pugionifolia
• Asperula pulchella
• Asperula pusilla - alpine woodruff
• Asperula rechingeri
• Asperula rezaiyensis
• Asperula scabrella
• Asperula scoparia - prickly woodruff
• Asperula seticornis
• Asperula setosa
• Asperula sherardioides
• Asperula sordide-rosea
• Asperula strishovae
• Asperula suavis
• Asperula subsimplex
• Asperula subulifolia
• Asperula syrticola
• Asperula szovitsii
• Asperula taurina - pink woodruff
• Asperula taygetea
• Asperula tenuissima
• Asperula tetraphylla
• Asperula tinctoria - Dyer's woodruff
• Asperula trichodes
• Asperula trifida
• Asperula tschernevae
• Asperula tymphaea
• Asperula virgata – rod-shaped woodruff
• Asperula wimmeriana
• Asperula xylorrhiza

References

External links

• Asperula in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae