Teucrium chamaedrys

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• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Teucrium

Herbs or subshrubs , with rhizomes or stolons. Stems erect or ascending , simple or branched from base . Leaves simple, petiolate or subsessile , cordate to lanceolate, penniveined. Verticillasters 2-6-flowered, in false spikes, terminal racemes , or panicles of racemes; bracts rhombic-ovate to linear-lanceolate, margin entire or dentate . Calyx 10-veined, throat glabrous to pilose annulate ; tube tubular to campanulate , swollen in front at base; limb equally 5-toothed to 2-lipped, upper lip 3-toothed, lower lip 2-toothed. Corolla 1-lipped; tube included or exserted, not hairy annulate inside; limb 5-lobed, with middle lobe circular or spatulate , occasionally 2-lobulate; lateral lobes 4, small. Stamens 4, anterior 2 slightly longer , all exserted from posterior sinus of corolla; anther cells divaricate . Ovary globose . Style equal to or slightly longer than stamens, equally or subequally 2-cleft at apex. Nutlets obovoid , glabrous, smooth to netted , areole ca. 1/2 as long as nutlet .

Approximately 260 species: worldwide, but abundant in the Mediterranean region; 18 species in China.[1]

Physical Description

Landscaping

Landscape Uses: Rock gardens. Borders . • Care: Tolerant of coastal conditions. Can be trimmed into any shape .

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,287 meters (0 to 4,222 feet).[2]

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 4-10" apart.

Soil: Prefers neutral to alkaline soil . • Minimum pH: 6.6 • Maximum pH: 8.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Water Requirements: Drought tolerant .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Teucrium

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 35 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

T. aroanium (Gray Creeping Germander) · T. bicolor (Oreganillo) · T. botrys (Cut Leaved Germander) · T. canadense (American Germander) · T. canadense var. canadense (Virginia Germander) · T. canadense var. hypoleucum (Canada Germander) · T. canadense var. occidentale (American Germander) · T. chamaedrys (Creeping Germander) · T. chamaedrys 'Nanum' (Dwarf Wall Germander) · T. chamaedrys 'Prostratum' (Wall Germander) · T. chamaedrys 'Summer Sunshine' (Wall Germander) · T. cossonii 'Majoricum' (Fruity Germander) · T. cubense (Small Coastal Germander) · T. cubense var. cubense (Small Coastal Germander) · T. cubense var. densum (Small Coastal Germander) · T. cubense var. laevigatum (Small Coastal Germander) · T. divaricatum (Germander) · T. fruticans (Shrubby Germander) · T. fruticans 'Azurea' (Shrubby Germander) · T. fruticans 'Azureum' (Azure Bush Germander) · T. glandulosum (Common Germander) · T. hircanicum (Germander) · T. hircanicum 'Paradise Delight' (Paradise Delight Germander) · T. hyrcanicum (Caucasian Germander) · T. hyrcanicum 'Purple Tails' (Caucasian Germander) · T. laciniatum (Germander) · T. lucidum (Germander) · T. marum (Cat Thyme Germander) · T. orientale (Oriental Germander) · T. polium (Felty Germander) · T. pyrenaicum (Pyrenean Germander) · T. scorodonia (Wood Sage) · T. scorodonia 'Crispum' (Wood Sage) · T. viscidum (Germander) · T. viscidum 'Lemon and Lime' (Lemon And Lime Germander)

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Further Reading

• An encyclopaedia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a By J.C. Loudon. London, Printed for Longman, Ross, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. url p. 869.
• An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a By J.C. Loudon. .. illustrated with many hundred engravings on wood by Branston. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. url p. 869.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 452.
• Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. [Orono, Me.: Maine State College, 1885-1953. url p. 243.
• Bemerkungen auf einer Reise in die südlichen Statthalterschaften des russischen Reichs in den Jahren 1793 und 1794 Leipzig: Bey Gottfried Martini, 1801. url , .
• Botanic drugs, their materia medica, pharmacology, and therapeutics, by Thomas S. Blair. Cincinnati, O.: The Therapeutic digest publishing co., 1917. url p. 350.
• British journal of entomology and natural history. [London]: British Entomological and Natural History Society, 1988- url p. 46.
• Bulletin - Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. [Orono]Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. url .
• Bulletin - Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Amherst, : Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907-1974. url p. 68.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 130, p. 131, p. 132, p. 416, p. 463, p. 484, p. 488, p. 8.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1950-1977. url p. 313, p. 349, p. 351, p. 353, p. 354, p. 366, p. 377.
• Bulletin. [Orono.] url p. 243.
• Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url p. 19, p. 395.
• Experimental pollination; an outline of the ecology of flowers and insects, by Frederic E. Clements and Frances L. Long. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1923. url p. 271.
• Flora of the U.S.S.R. [Springfield, Va.: Israel Program for Scientific Translations; 1968- url p. 45.
• Florigraphia britannica, or, Engravings and descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Britain / by Richard Deakin. London: Groombridge, 1857. url .
• Insects. by David Sharp. London: Macmillan, 1909. url p. 550.
• Landscaping your home / Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1975. url p. 232, p. 243.
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• Seeds handbook for agriculture, horticulture and forestry, with a key for the identification of the important agricultural seeds = Handbuch der Samenkunde für Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau und Forstwirtschaft, mit einem Schlussel zur Bestimmung der wichtigsten landwirtschaftlichen Samen / Walther Brouwen and Adolf Stahlin. [S.l.: s.n.], 1980. url p. 137.
• Standardized plant names; a catalogue of approved scientific and common names of plants in American commerce. Salem, Mass., 1923. url p. 160, p. 76.
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• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 24 1936 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 119, p. 160, p. 176.
• The complete illustrated book of garden magic. Chicago, J.G. Ferguson Pub. Co.[1969] url p. 107, p. 108, p. 192, p. 401.
• The natural history of Pliny. London, H. G. Bohn, 1855-57. url p. 53.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 11, 2007:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien, Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB, Paleobiology Database
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen
• SysTax, Museu Botanico Municipal
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Lund Botanical Museum
• Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
• US National Plant Germplasm System, United States National Plant Germplasm System Collection
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1673195
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2888579
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:460310-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 646594

Footnotes

1. "Teucrium". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 56. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 178.930 meters (587.041 feet), Standard Deviation = 196.860 based on 2,288 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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