Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Teucrium corymbosum

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

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Gulaga National Park near Tilba Tilba

Line drawings. e. flowering stem; detail of stem node; flowers. P Neish, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Forest germander

Family

Lamiaceae

Where found

Forest in sheltered situations, disturbed sites, rocky sites, dry creek beds. Widespread.

Notes

Perennial herb or shrub to 1.5 m high. Stems 4-angled, densely covered with stalkless glands and short hairs. Leaves opposite each other, aromatic when rubbed, 1.5–11 cm long, 6–20 mm wide, tips somewhat pointed;  lower surface hairy and densely covered with stalkless glands, margins toothed, base tapering. Flowers white, 8–12 mm long, tubular, 2-lipped, with 5 lobes, in branched clusters of 3-20 flowers. Flowering: August–April.

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

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