Teucrium scordium, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 132

15. T. scordium L. , Sp. Pl. 565 (1753).

Softly hairy to subglabrous, stoloniferous perennial, smelling of garlic when crushed. Stems 10-60 cm, often freely branched. Leaves ovate to oblong, coarsely dentate, or crenate-dentate, sessile or subsessile. Flowers in the axils of leaf-like bracts which are usually longer than the flowers. Calyx villous, obscurely veined; teeth c. I as long as tube, triangular, acuminate. Corolla 7-10 mm, villous, purplish; tube slightly exceeding calyx. Wet places. Europe, northwards to Ireland, Sweden and Estonia. All except Az Fa Fe Is No Rs (N) Sb.