American Germander (Noun)
Meaning
Subshrub with serrate leaves and cream-colored to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Teucrium cubense is the more well known or tropical example within Teucrium otherwise subtending wood sage or American germander.
- American germander and another plant called purple germander are often used as an ornamental in gardens.
- American germander commonly infests non-crop areas such as roadsides, along railroads and power lines, or in neglected areas such as cemeteries and old home sites.
- This spreading subshrub is more commonly known as the American germander and it grows a foot or two feet tall and three to five feet wide.
- It is often referred to as American germander because of its resemblance to the more famous herb germander but no known relation to Europe's germander though a Teucrium member.