germander

any of various plants of the genus Teucrium

• American germander, wood sage, Teucrium canadense — subshrub with serrate leaves and cream to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America
• wall germander, Teucrium chamaedrys — European perennial subshrub with red-purple or bright rose flowers with red and white spots
• cat thyme, marum, Teucrium marum — Mediterranean germander having small hairy leaves and reddish purple flowers; attractive to cats
• wood sage, Teucrium scorodonia — European germander with one-sided racemes of yellow flowers; naturalized in North America

• subshrub, suffrutex — low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base

• Teucrium, genus Teucrium — large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs; native to Mediterranean region to western Asia