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Teucrium chamaedrys
Wall germander is a low, creeping, evergreen subshrub with shiny, scalloped leaves and pink-purple tubular flowers in late summer, grown as a ground-cover edging or rock garden plant. It needs full sun and well-drained soil to stay compact.
Teucrium chamaedrys, the wall germander, is a species of plant native to the Mediterranean regions of Europe and North Africa, and the Middle East as far as Iran. It is used as an ornamental.
Wall germander can be grown in USDA Zones 5–10. It may be propagated by vegetative cuttings or by the division of established clumps.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Teucrium chamaedrys by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
