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==Wikipedia EN== | |||
[[File:Rubiaceae - Rubia peregrina-1.JPG|thumb|Rubiaceae - Rubia peregrina-1|alt=Rubia peregrina]] | |||
Rubia peregrina, the common wild madder, is a herbaceous perennial plant species belonging to the bedstraw and coffee family Rubiaceae. | |||
The genus name Rubia derives from the Latin ruber meaning "red", as the roots of some species (mainly Rubia tinctorum) have been used since ancient times as a vegetable red dye. The specific epithet is the Latin adjective peregrinus, -a, -um meaning "foreign, alien, exotic, strange." |