Anchusa Officinalis – Alkanet

Description

Anchusa is a plant that is at home in early England, and enjoys the neglect it receives on warm dry sunny hillsides, or along railway tracks. It has been used to make a beautiful Ruby Red brown dye for fibers, and in oils and soaps where the color will be from more of a red color depending upon how much oil is used. The Alkanet tinctoria is from Central and Southern Europe to create the same beautiful red color.