Date: 2010-10-19 11:27 am (UTC)
Nope, not the same family at all!

http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Isatis/index.html

But it is the same chemical substance in both plants that produce the blue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria (the bit called Woad and Indigo

And more...
http://www.indigopage.com/herbal/herbal.htm
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