LABI AT AE (MINT FAMILY) 



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or sometimes only two, and a deeply four-lobed 

 ovary, which in fruit forms four tiny nutlets 

 or achenes surrounding the base of a single 

 style in the bottom of a persistent calyx. 

 (Fig. 239.) 



Stems rather stout, smooth or only 

 slightly hairy, six inches to a foot in height. 

 Root-leaves tufted, obovate, rounded at apex, 

 scallop-toothed, tapering to margined petioles ; 

 stem-leaves sessile or nearly so, rounded or a 

 short oval, becoming entire near the top. 

 Thrust out from the tufted basal leaves are 

 numerous slender stolons, a foot or more 

 long, which take root and form new plants, 

 causing the weed to grow in patches. Flowers, 

 pale blue or white, in axillary clusters, sessile, 

 very small ; the upper lip of the corolla very 

 short and cleft, the lower one three-lobed and 

 spreading ; calyx five-toothed. Nutlets rough- 

 ened, and very small. 



Means of control 



FIG. 239. 



Scattered colonies of the plant should be Creeping Bugleweed 

 hoed out and removed from the soil, for if left (Ajugareptans). 

 on moist ground it will take root again. Cultivation of the soil de- 

 stroys the weed, and badly infested ground should be so treated. 



AMERICAN GERMANDER 

 Teucrium canadense, L. 



Other English name: Wood Sage. 



Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: June to September. 



Seed-time: August to November. 



Range: New England to Nebraska, southward to Georgia and 



Texas. 

 Habitat : Moist grasslands, roadsides, fencerows, banks of streams, 



and waste places. 



