Waldbingelkraut

Prefers a humus rich soil. Dog's mercury is a very invasive and common hedgerow plant, it should not be necessary to cultivate it. Male and female plants usually grow in separate clumps, the females being less common. The leaves contain trimethylamine and, in the early stages of putrefaction or when bruised, they give off the smell of rotting fish. Dioecious. Male and female plants must be grown if seed is required.

Edible Parts: Oil Edible Uses: Oil None known

Dye Oil A fine blue dye is obtained from the leaves, it is turned red by acids and destroyed by alkalis but is otherwise permanent. It resembles indigo. A yellow dye is obtained from the leaves. The seed is a potential source of a very good drying oil.

Heimisch: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Brussels-Capital Region, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, DK, Denmark, East European Russia, England (England, Wales, Isle of Man, Scotland, Orkney Isl. [I]); Ireland [I] (Ireland [I], Northern Ireland [I]); Denmark; Norway; Sweden; Finland; Netherlands; Belgium; Luxembourg; Germany (Brandenburg, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen); Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Austria; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Hungary; Portugal; Spain; Andorra; France; +Monaco; Channel Isl.; Corsica; Italy; Sicily; San Marino; Slovenia; Croatia; Bosnia & Hercegovina; ?Montenegro; Serbia; Kosovo; ?North Macedonia; Albania; Romania; Bulgaria; European Turkey; N-Greece; Estonia; Belarus; C-European Russia; E-European Russia; W-European Russia; Ukraine; Crimea; Algeria; Northern Caucasus; Georgia [Caucasus]; Azerbaijan; Turkey (N-Anatolia, NE-Anatolia); Iran (N-Iran), FI, Finland, Flanders, Flemish Region, France, Germany, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, IE, Iran, Italy, Krym, NO, NW. Balkan Pen., Netherlands, North Caucasus, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Portugal Continental, Romania, SE, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Walloon Region Eingeführt: Ireland, New York, Tunisia