Isatis tinctoria
Initially a vegetable garden, and since 1990 a sculpture garden, today's botanical garden was created in 2002 by textile designer Daniel Algranate as an adjunct to his museum, the "Maison des Matières et du Design textile". It contains approximately 200 species of plants used for making textiles, baskets, rope, or dyes, with collections including abaca, agave, bamboo, broom, cotton, dogwood, flax, hemp, pineapple, and willow, as well as "Alcea rosea", "Artemisia vulgaris", "Galium aparine", "Cruciata laevipes", "Galium odoratum", "Genista tinctoria", "Isatis tinctoria", "Rubia peregrina", and "Verbascum thapsus".