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Sideritis scardica
Also called Mountain Tea, Shepherd's Tea, Greek Mountain Tea, Mursalski Tea, Pirinski Tea, Shepard's Tea
Ironwort (Sideritis scardica), also called Greek mountain tea, is a small mint-family subshrub native to the mountains of the Balkans and Greece. It is grown for its aromatic leaves and dries well in full sun and lean, well-drained soil.
Sideritis scardica is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. Commonly known as Greek mountain tea, it is a flowering plant species of Sideritis, native to Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (particularly in the area of Mount Olympus), Kosovo, and North Macedonia. It was first described in 1844.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
