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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 
. Fie. 239. — 
Scattered colonies of the plant should be Creeping Bugleweed 
hoed out and removed from the soil, for if left (479 reptans). 
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 canadénse, 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. 
