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Scientific name:

Teucrium scorodonia

Vernacular name:

Sage, Wood


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Wood Sage

Scientific name: Teucrium scorodonia L.

Diagnostic features
Herbaceous perennial.
Stems erect, to 50cm.
Leaves serrate, cordate at base, petiolate.
Corolla greenish-cream.

Chromosome number: 2n=32, 34.

Habitat
Native; woods, hedgerows, hilly areas, fixed shingle and dunes, on acidic or alkaline usually well-drained soils.

Distribution
Common in suitable places throughout most of British Isles, but rare in much of Central Ireland and Central-east England.

This species is keyed out on Page 3089 in the Text Key.

Teucrium scorodonia (Sage, Wood)
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