LABIATE MINT FAMILY 



Teucrium canadense, L. var. littorale, (Bicknell) Fernald. 



Pinkish-white tinged Germander, 



with magenta or purple Wood Sage. 



July-September 



Teucrium: named for the Trojan king, Teucer. 



Canadense: Latin for Canadian. 



Littorale: Latin, belonging to the sea-shore. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: slightly brackish marshes. 



THE PLANT: erect, one foot to two feet tall; the stem 

 generally unbranched, stiff, rather slender, with short 

 soft hairs. 



THE LEAVES: opposite; generally lanceolate; with short* 

 soft, appressed whitish hairs, especially above ; thick and 

 somewhat wrinkled; acuminate at the apex; mostly nar- 

 rowed at the base; short-petioled; irregularly dentate. 



THE FLOWERS: in dense spikes; the lower lip broad and 

 prominent. 



THE FRUIT: nutlets. 



Sometimes a plant, like a person, is successfully the 

 average neither very stupid, nor very interesting. So, 

 the Germander, of which the purplish spikes and downy 

 pale green leaves tint and soften the general colour tone 

 of salt-marsh grass and blend prettily with the blue of 

 the Skull-cap. 



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