Dye Plant Color List

Common Name	Botanical Name	Harvest	Color
Acorns	Quercus sp.	nuts	tans to pinks
Alder	Alnus glutinosa	bark, roots	reds, oranges
Bedstraw	Galium boreal	roots	reds
Birch	Betula sp.	bark, roots	reds, purples, blacks
Black eyed Susan	Rudbeckia hirta	flower heads	yellows to greens
Black Raspberry	Rubus sp.	berries	browns, to purples
Blackberries	Rubus sp.	roots, canes, berries	purples to blue
Blanket flower	Gaillardia puchella	heads	yellows to orange
Blueberries	Vaccinium angustifolium	berries	blues to blue grey
Boletes	various	whole fungus	various results
Bur Marigold	Bidens aristosa	heads	browns
Butternut	Juglans cinerea	bark, roots, nuts	browns to black
Cactus	Opuntia humifusa	pads with bugs	reds to purples
Cattails	Typha latifolia	heads	reds to browns
Cherry	Prunus sp.	Roots	Blues, purples
Chokecherries	Prunus sp.	berries, roots	reds to purples
Coreopsis	Coreopsis palmata	whole plant	reds, oranges
Cranberries	Vaccinium macrocarpon	berries	reds, pinks
Dogwood Red-Osier	Coruns amomum	roots	reds to purples
Elderberries	Sambucus nigra	berries	Blues, grays, purples
Elm	Ulmus sp.	bark, roots	corals and oranges
Goldenrod	Solidago sp.	flower heads	yellows
Hazelnut	Corylus sp.	roots, barks, nuts	browns
Hickory	Carya sp.	bark, roots	unknown
Hoary Puccoon	Lithospermum caroliniense	whole plant	yellows
Jerusalem artichoke	Helianthus tuberosa	roots	yellows
Larkspur	Delphinium exaltatum	flower heads	blues
Lichens	various	whole fungus	various results
Madder, wild	Rubiaceae sp.	roots	reds to oranges
Maple	Acer sp.	bark, roots	blues to purples
Meadow rue	Thalictrum dasycarpum	whole plant	unknown
Mugwort	Artemisia ludoviciana	unknown	unknown
Mullein	Verbascum thapsus	whole plant	yellows to greens
Mushrooms	various	whole fungus	varies
Oak	Quercus sp.	bark, roots	browns to black
Ocher	Iron oxides	fresh clay	various results
Osage Orange	Maclura pomifera	inner wood	yellows to khaki
Pigweed, Redroot	Amaranthuus retroflexus	seed heads	reds
Plum	Prunus americana	bark, roots	reds to purples
Pokeberry	Phytolocca americana	berries, roots	blues to purples
Polypores	Polyporacae sp.	whole fungus	various results
Prairie Dock	Silphium terebinthinaceum	roots	reds
Red cedar	Juniperus virginiana	roots	reds to purples
Rose hips	Rosa sp.	rose hip	yellows to unknown
Snowberries	Symphoricarpos albus	unknown	unknown
St. Johns Wort	Hypericum punctatum	whole plant	yellows
Sumac	Rhus glabra	berries	blacks, reds, browns
Sunflower	Helianthus sp.	flower head, roots	yellows to blacks
Turkey's tail (polypore)	Trametes versicolor	whole fungus	blues to browns
Walnut	Juglans nigra	nuts, bark, roots	purples to black
Wild Grape	Vitis riparia	roots	purples
Willow	Salix sp.	roots, bark	reds to blacks