Flowers. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, north of Louth, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Plant. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Base of old plant. Photo: Michelle Brown, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Forest Germander, Grey Germander

Family

Lamiaceae

Notes

Perennial forb to 90cm tall.  Leaves opposite each other, hairy, 1-5cm long, 2-12mm wide, flat, hairy, the edges often unevenly curved downwards and/or often wavy, entire or sometimes lobed.  Flowers white, tubular, with five lobes, solitary (rarely 3) at the bases of the leaves. 

Description and photo (as Teucrium racemosum var. racemosum) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 577.  Varieties are no longer recognised. Teucrium racemosum var. polymorphum (page 577) is now included in Teucrium racemosum.  Teucrium racemosum var. tripartitum (page 578) is now Teucrium albicaule.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Teucrium~racemosum