Teucrium chamaedrys
Teucrium chamaedrys
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Sun-loving Mediterranean plants for any fertile, well-drained soil. These low growing evergreen mounds can form very effective tiny hedges.
Wall germander was often used in formal knot gardens. It is a dwarf, shrubby hedging plant or ground cover that spreads slowly by runner. Native to the dry meadows, alpine steppes, rock crevices, and calcareous nutrient poor grasslands of Central Europe. Grow in similarly poor, well-drained soil in full sun.
Zones: 4 to 8
Family: Lamiaceae
Type: perennial
Height: 9 to 12 in.
Spread: 12 to 24 in.
Exposure: full sun
Soil Conditions: dry, sandy, well-drained, average, poor, lean
Bloom Time: June to August
Bloom Color: pink
Native Range: Mediterranean regions of Europe and North Africa, and the Middle East as far as Iran
Image Credits:
- Image 1-2 Ali McEnhill at The Old Daiey Nursery
- Image 3 (knot garden) Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons
