They might, however, plant beds every year, and after the first three years have annual crops. Madder is raised in narrow beds, about four feet wide, for the convenience of keeping it free of ...

We have been informed that there grows wild, in Florida, a plant, whose roots, when eaten by hogs, colors their bones red. Such is the effect of madder. Doubtless this is an indigenous species ...

The botanical intruder that is field madder, scientifically dubbed as Sherardia arvensis, could easily be mistaken for a quaint addition to your yard with its petite lavender to pale pink flowers ...