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habit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
habit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
close-up of stem and leaves (Photo: Greg Jordan)
upper leaves and branched flower cluster (Photo: Greg Jordan)
close-up of flowers (Photo: Greg Jordan)
close-up of flower from side-on (Photo: Greg Jordan)
Scientific Name
Teucrium scorodonia L.
Family
Labiatae (South Australia)Lamiaceae (Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory)
Common Names
curled woodsage, sage-leaved germander, wood germander, wood sage, woodland germander, woodsage
Origin
Native to northern Africa (i.e. Tunisia), the Azores, the Madeira Islands and Europe (i.e. France, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, southern Norway, the UK, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, western Poland, Switzerland, Italy, western and Yugoslavia).
Naturalised Distribution
Locally naturalised in Tasmania.
Also naturalised overseas in eastern USA, Canada and New Zealand.
Notes
Wood sage (Teucrium scorodonia) is regarded as an environmental weed in Tasmania.