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''