Cynanchica abbreviata, commonly known as woodruff, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae that is endemic to Naxos and Amorgos in Greece.

[1] It was first formally described in 1901 by Eugen von Halácsy who gave it the name Asperula lutea var.

[2] In 1943, Karl Heinz Rechinger raised the variety to species status as Asperula abbreviata in Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften / Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.

[3] In 2020, it was reclassified into the newly erected genus Cynanchica.

Cynanchica abbreviata flowers around May-June, and grows best in a rock garden, trough or crevice.