This list is by no means comprehensive.
Arranged by colour, bold type indicates “recommended for good colour”.
Red, Pink
- Cochineal (non plant)
- Lac (non plant)
- Madder roots
- Brazilwood
- St John’s Wort – flowers
- Sycamore – bark
- Avocados – skins
- Birch bark
- Safflower
Orange
- Annatto seeds
- White Onion – skins
- Turmeric – roots
- Cutch
- Coreopsis
Yellow
- Saffron – stamens
- Marigold flowers
- Queen Anne’s Lace – flowers
- St John’s Wort – plant tops/flowers
- Goldenrod tops
- Turmeric – roots or powder
- White Onion – skins
- Larkspur – plant
- Dyers Chamomile
- Berberis
- Birch leaves
- Safflower
- Buckthorn berries
- Fustic
- Coreopsis
- Yellow cosmos flowers
- Dahlia flowers
- Dyers Greenweed tops
- Weld
- Daffodil flowers
- Pomegranate
- Buckthorn
- Rhubarb root
- Tansy
- Dandelion tops
Brown
- Coreopsis
- Walnut – Hulls
- Walnut leaves
- Dandelion – roots
- Yellow dock – plant
- Sumac – leaves, powder
- Birch bark
- Buckthorn
Blue, Purple, Grey, Black
- Indigo –leaves
- Woad – leaves
- Cornflower – flowers
- Dyer’s Alkanet
- Logwood
- Hibiscus flowers
Green
- Alder leaves and bark
- Larkspur – plant
- Red Onion – skins
- Yarrow – flowers
- Chamomile – leaves
- Black-eyed Susan – flowers
- Nettle – leaves
- Dyer’s Broom – plant
- Dahlia leaves and stems
- Goldenrod tops
- Comfrey
Turquoise
- Burberis + indigo
