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Forest Germander

Teucrium corymbosum

Forest Germander
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Papua New Guinea to E. & SE. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Teucrium corymbosum, commonly known as forest germander, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is native to Australia and New Guinea. It is a perennial herb or subshrub densely covered with glands and with narrow egg-shaped leaves usually with toothed edges, and groups of mostly up to ten white flowers.

Where it grows

Forest germander grows in forest, dry creek beds, shaded and partially cleared areas, often on rocky ground. It occurs in New Guinea, Queensland, eastern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, and in south-eastern South Australia.

Other Teucrium plants

African Woodsage · Teucrium albicaule · Native Germander · Teucrium aroanium · Teucrium balfourii · Teucrium balthazaris · Teucrium betchei · Cutleaf germander · Canada germander · Wall germander · Small coastal germander · Shrubby germander

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Teucrium corymbosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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