Weld
Reseda luteola L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 36 cm
Resedaceae
Also called Wild mignonette, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's Mignonette, Dyer's weed, Woold
Formerly Arkopoda luteola, Luteola tinctoria
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BiennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, N. Africa, Europe to C. Asia and PakistanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 25 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- GreenRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension green; Wikipedia green, yellow
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Färber-Wau, Färber-Resede
- Spanish
- Acelguilla euroasiática, gualda
- French
- Réséda des teinturiers, Réséda jaunâtre, réséda des teinturiers
- Hebrew
- רכפת הצבעים
- Czech
- rýt barvířský
- Danish
- Farve-reseda
- Dutch
- Wouw, wouw
- Norwegian Bokmål
- fargereseda
- Finnish
- värireseda
- Russian
- Резеда жёлтенькая
- Portuguese
- lírio-dos-tintureiros
- Estonian
- värvireseeda
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0 at
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Reseda luteola (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.