Teucrium fruticans

Bush Germander at Hughes, ACT

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Identification history

Teucrium fruticans	24 Nov 2017	MichaelMulvaney
Teucrium fruticans	4 Nov 2017	BettyDonWood
Unidentified	4 Nov 2017	BettyDonWood
Unidentified	9 Oct 2017	ruthkerruish

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8 comments

ruthkerruish wrote:

13 Oct 2017

What about Eremophila sp.? Shrub has been in position for at least 20-30 years.

ruthkerruish wrote:

13 Oct 2017

No irrigation.

BettyDonWood wrote:

29 Oct 2017

I don't know it at all. I am familiar with all the shapes of Eremophila flowers, and I don't think it is that. An exotic? It might have been planted by mistake for Rhagodia.

ruthkerruish wrote:

30 Oct 2017

Will check it out further.

ruthkerruish wrote:

4 Nov 2017

It appears it is Teucrium sp. Evidently there are hundreds of species, subgenera etc, is named after King Teucer of Troy and is a very old plant group within the Lamiaceae!

BettyDonWood wrote:

5 Nov 2017

I suspect your closeup is of a flower that is nearly over. Do you have any photos of a flower front on? These are very distinctive. Teucrium is in the mint family, so the stems should be angled in cross-section, and the leaves aromatic.
Assuming it is Teucrium, it keys to racemosum in both Plantnet and Vicflora. Vicflora says the flowers are white, plantnet does not say i have only seen it white, and all the photos on ALA shoe white flowers.

Mike wrote:

5 Nov 2017

Looks like Teucrium fruticans which is not in Plantnet but is a possibility for a garden escape.

BettyDonWood wrote:

5 Nov 2017

Fruticans has shiny leaves, unfortunately, though there is a cultivar called 'Azurea' with silvery leaves. Here are some photos from a Flora. http://www.floracatalana.net/teucrium-fruticans-l-
If it is likely to be a weed, a vouchered specimen with a definite ID needs to be in the herbarium.

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