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| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
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| binomial = ''Teucrium polium''
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'''''Teucrium polium''''' (known popularly as '''felty germander''') is a sub-shrub and [[herb]] native to the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] region and the [[Middle East]]. Its flowers are small and range from pink to white, and its leaves are used in cooking and for medicinal purposes, particularly for the treatment of stomach ailments.
  
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'''Felty Germander''' (''Teucrium polium'') is a sub-shrub and [[herb]] native to the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]] region and the [[Middle East]]. Its flowers are small and range from pink to white, and its leaves are used in cooking and for medicinal purposes, particularly for the treatment of stomach ailments. It has also shown some promise in the treatment of visceral [[Pain and nociception|pain]]. Although it is also often used to treat blood sugar disorders (such as [[diabetes]]), studies have failed to find any benefit of the use of ''T. polium'' for diabetics.
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Teucrium polium, Linn. Low canescent-tomentose, lanate or rarely pilose-hispid shrubs, 2-6, rarely 12 in. high: basal branches procumbent, ascending or rarely sub-erect: lvs. cuneate-oblong or linear, sessile, crenate, margin revolute, upper surface very short-tomentose, densely lanate or pilose, color, especially above, yellowish hoary, golden or rarely green; floral lvs. similar: floral whorls few, 2-6-fld., condensed in a globose or oblong head, which is solitary or often several corymbosely glomerate: fls. white, yellow, or purple; calyx tubular-campanulate; corolla small. Medit. region and Orient.—A decidedly variable species. Var. flavescens, Benth. (T. aureum, Schreb.), has broader lvs., very hairy heads and yellow tips to the branches.
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* [http://www.anniesannuals.com/signs/t%20-%20u/teucrium_polium_fg.htm Felty germander page at Annie's Annuals]
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==References==
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* [http://www.sums.ac.ir/semj/vol4/oct2003/rtp&niddm.htm The Effect of Extract of Teucrium Polium On Blood Sugar and Insulin Levels of Type 2 Diabetic Patients]
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12770512&dopt=Abstract Abstract: Antinociceptive effects of Teucrium polium L total extract and essential oil in mouse writhing test]
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Latest revision as of 01:05, 21 April 2010


Teucrium capitatum2006.jpg


Plant Characteristics
Height: ⇕ 4 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4. to 16 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.
Width: ⇔ 6 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6. to 12 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Bloom: ❀ early summer, mid summer, late summer
Cultivation
Exposure: ☼ sun
USDA Zones: 7 to 10
Flower features: ❀ orange, yellow, blue, purple
Scientific Names

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Teucrium polium (known popularly as felty germander) is a sub-shrub and herb native to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. Its flowers are small and range from pink to white, and its leaves are used in cooking and for medicinal purposes, particularly for the treatment of stomach ailments.


Read about Teucrium polium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Teucrium polium, Linn. Low canescent-tomentose, lanate or rarely pilose-hispid shrubs, 2-6, rarely 12 in. high: basal branches procumbent, ascending or rarely sub-erect: lvs. cuneate-oblong or linear, sessile, crenate, margin revolute, upper surface very short-tomentose, densely lanate or pilose, color, especially above, yellowish hoary, golden or rarely green; floral lvs. similar: floral whorls few, 2-6-fld., condensed in a globose or oblong head, which is solitary or often several corymbosely glomerate: fls. white, yellow, or purple; calyx tubular-campanulate; corolla small. Medit. region and Orient.—A decidedly variable species. Var. flavescens, Benth. (T. aureum, Schreb.), has broader lvs., very hairy heads and yellow tips to the branches. CH


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