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

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