''Reseda lutea'', the yellow mignonette or wild mignonette, is a species of fragrant herbaceous plant. Its leaves and flowers have been used to make a yellow dye called "weld" since the

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, although the related plant ''

Reseda luteola ''Reseda luteola'' is a plant species in the genus '' Reseda''. Common names include dyer's rocket, dyer's weed, weld, woold, and yellow weed. A native of Europe and Western Asia, the plant can be found in North America as an introduced species an ...

'' was more widely used for that purpose. A native of Eurasia and North Africa, the plant is present on other continents as an

introduced species An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived ther ...

and a common

weed A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place", or a plant growing where it is not wanted.Harlan, J. R., & deWet, J. M. (1965). Some thoughts about weeds. ''Economic botany'', ''19''(1), 16-24. ...

. In Australia it is a noxious weed and pest of agricultural crops.

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lutea Flora of Europe Flora of the Canary Islands Flora of North Africa Flora of temperate Asia Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Brassicales-stub