Teucrium laciniatum

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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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

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 15-18" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.6 • Maximum pH: 8.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

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 illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions: from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian / by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. Addison Brown. New York: Scribner, 1913. url p. 103.
• Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. New-York: 1824-1876. url p. 231.
• Annual report Missouri Botanical Garden. 18 1907 St. Louis: Board of Trustees, 1890-1912. url p. 153, p. 188.
• Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. [Orono, Me.: Maine State College, 1885-1953. url p. 243.
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url .
• Botanical explorations in southern Texas during the season of 1894. [Lancaster, Pa.]The New Era Printing House, 1895. url p. 89.
• Bulletin - Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. [Orono]Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. url .
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology. Washington: G.P.O., 1904-1916. url p. 104, p. 160, p. 160.
• Catalog of hymenoptera in America north of Mexico / prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein. .. [et al.]. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979- url p. 1850, p. 1868.
• Contributions from the Herbarium of Columbia College. New York: Columbia College, 1886-1896. url p. 185.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 1 1890-1895 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 213, p. 333, p. 47, p. 553.
• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 24 2005 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 163.
• Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, Captain Fifth Infantry U.S. Army; assisted by George B. McClellan, Brevet Captain U.S. Engineers; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, Public Printer, 1854. url p. 261.
• Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852; by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers. With reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1854. url p. 261.
• Flora of Colorado, Fort Collins, Col., Experiment Station, 1906. url .
• Flora of Colorado, by P. A. Rydberg, PH. D. Fort Collins, Col., Experiment Station, 1906. url p. 295.
• Flora of Colorado, by P.A. Rydberg. Fort Collins, Col., Experiment Station, 1906. url p. 295, p. 295.
• Flora of New Mexico / by E.O. Wooton and Paul C. Standley. Washington: G.P.O., 1915. url p. 553.
• Flora of New Mexico. By E.O. Wooton and Paul C. Standley. WashingtonGovt. Print. Off.1915 url p. 553.
• Flora of the southeastern United States; being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and in Oklahom by John Kunkel Small. New York, The author, 1913. url p. 1019.
• Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 3 1902 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., 1900- url p. 138, p. 351.
• Manual of the flora of the northern states and Canada / by Nathaniel Lord Britton. New York: Holt, 1905. url p. 1088.
• Manual of vegetable-garden insects, by Cyril Richard Crosby and Mortimer Demarest Leonard. .. New York, The Macmillan company, 1918. url p. 219, p. 219.
• New manual of botany of the central Rocky mountains (vascular plants) by John M. Coulter, rev. by Aven Nelson. Cincinnati [etc.]American book company[c1909] url p. 426, p. 427.
• Phytologia. 8 1961 - 19 Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 213, p. 27, p. 405, p. 410.
• Plantae Lindheimerianae: an enumeration of F. Lindheimer's collection of Texan plants, with remarks and descriptions of new species, etc. / by George Engelmann and Asa Gray. 1907 Boston: Printed by Freeman and Bolles, 1845-[1907] url p. 153, p. 153, p. 188.
• Small, J. K. Flora of the southeastern United States;being descriptions of the seed-plants, ferns and fern-allies growing naturally in North Carolina, South Carolin, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and the Indian territory and in Oklahoma and Texas east of the one-hundredth meridian /by John Kunkel Small. .. 1903 New York: The author, 1903. url p. 1019.
• Text-book of western botany: consisting of Coulter's Manual of the botany of the Rocky mountains, to which is prefixed Gray's lessons in botany. For the use of schools and colleges between the Mississippi river and the Rocky moun Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Company, 1885. url p. 294.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 794.
• Torrey, J. Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior /by William H. Emory, major First Cavalry, and United States commissioner. 2(1) 1859 Washington: C. Wendell, printer, 1857-59. url p. 135, p. 135.
• Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York: New York Academy of Sciences. url p. 220.

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 21, 2007:

• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• Utah Valley State College
• , Utah Valley State College Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2655035
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-32359
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13746248
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:460495-1
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 32359
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: TELA
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 65742

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]

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