Teucrium

Germanders
Teucrium eremaeum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Ajugoideae
Genus: Teucrium
L. (1753)
Type species
Teucrium fruticans
L.
Species

See List of Teucrium species

Synonyms[1]
List
Wild Teucrium in Behbahan, Iran
Wild Teucrium in Behbahan, Iran

Teucrium is a cosmopolitan genus of flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae, commonly known as germanders.[2] Plants in this genus are perennial herbs or shrubs, with branches that are more or less square in cross-section, leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and flowers arranged in thyrses, the corolla with mostly white to cream-coloured, lobed petals.

  1. ^ "Teucrium L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ NRCS. "Teucrium". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 9 December 2015.