Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Teucrium argutum

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Native Germander

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Dry forest, pastures, and stream banks. Coast and ranges north from Tahmoor.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.5 m high, often scrambling, often suckering. Branches 4-angled, densely hairy and sticky. Leaves opposite each other, aromatic when rubbed, 1.5–5 cm long, 12–20 mm wide, tips somewhat pointed, surfaces moderately to densely hairy, and densely covered with stalkless glands, margins toothed or scalloped, bases more or less squared off. Flowers deep pink-purple, 8–10 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes. Flowers single at the base of leaflike bracts, in unbranched clusters. Flowering: December–June.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Teucrium~argutum (accessed 9 February, 2021)