Something About Teucrium

Gama more (Teucrium) is a genus of perennial plants in the mint family (Lamiaceae) Teucrium The botanical name means' Trojan plant. In both English and German, the sex usually "more gama 'mentioned.

The species in this genus are herbaceous, shrubs or half shrubs. They occur naturally in Europe, the Mediterranean to western Asia. But in the Benelux are a number of species in the wild. In eastern North America Will Teucrium canadense for.

Species in this genus have flowers whose upper lip appears to be missing. Where in other genera such as Ajuga the upper lip can be reduced, these apparently missing here. The reason is that this split in two and split into two zijlappen. The five lobed lip seems to be.

Teucrium species are used as host plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora Coleophora auricella and chamaedriella (the latter feeds exclusively Teucrium chamaedrys).



Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamander

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