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Scientific Name
Family
Common Names
Origin
Naturalised Distribution
Notes
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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)

Teucrium scorodonia

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.