348 



LABIATAE (MINT FAMILY) 



Not a woodland plant in spite of its name. Stem one to three 

 feet high, slender, erect, simple or with few branches, covered 

 with fine, appressed hairs. Leaves long- 

 ovate to lance-shaped, green above, ap- 

 pressed gray-hairy beneath, sharply toothed, 

 narrowing to short petioles. Flowers in 

 long, crowded racemes, six inches to a 

 foot in length, making the plant con- 

 spicuous when growing in meadows ; calyx 

 densely velvety-hairy, five-toothed ; corolla 

 pink or rose-purple, the lower lip with one 

 large, rounded spreading lobe and two 

 small pointed ones ; upper lip deeply cleft, 

 the exserted stamens and style thrust out 

 between its lobes; the blossoms are often 

 nearly an inch long, in whorls of six or 

 more, on very short pedicels, subtended by 

 leafy bracts about as long as the calyx. 

 Nutlets obovoid and rough. (Fig. 240.) 



Means of control 



FIG. 240. American if tne infestation is new, grub out or 

 Germander (Teucrium , , 11 j.u i u J.L j 



canadense). x i- hand-pull the plants when the ground is 



soft, before the first flowers mature; or 



cut closely and repeatedly during the growing season, so as to 

 starve the roots and prevent seed production. 



BLUE CURLS 

 Trichostema dichdtomum, L. 



Other English name: Bastard Pennyroyal. 



Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. 



Time of bloom: July to October. 



Seed-time: August to November. 



Range: Maine to Kentucky, Florida, and Texas. 



Habitat: Dry soil ; fields and waste places. 



Stem six to eighteen inches high, slender, stiff, obtusely four- 

 angled, much branched, finely hairy, and viscid. Leaves oblong 



