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Stace 4:

Teucrium chamaedrys L. - Wall Germander.

Dwarf evergreen shrub; stems suberect to decumbent, to 40cm; leaves serrate, cuneate at base, shortly petiolate; corolla pinkish-purple; (2n=32, 58, 60, 62, 64, 96). Native; chalk grassland at 2 sites in East Sussex (1 extinct), discovered in 1924; grown in gardens and naturalised on old walls and dry banks; very scattered in British Isles North to Central Scotland, mainly South England, decreasing; Europe. Garden and naturalised plants are often more robust and have longer more spreading hairs.

Key:

• Corolla pinkish-purple (rarely white); upper calyx-tooth scarcely different from other 4
• Very dwarf evergreen shrub; whorls forming a terminal inflorescence