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== Summary ==
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|familia=Lamiaceae
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|genus=Teucrium
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|species=polium
|taxo_author=L.
|common_name=Golden germander, Felty Germander
|Min ht box=4
|Min ht metric=in
|Max ht box=16
|Max ht metric=in
|height_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|Min wd box=6
|Min wd metric=in
|Max wd box=12
|Max wd metric=in
|width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|exposure=sun
|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|flower_season=early summer, mid summer, late summer
|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|flowers=orange, yellow, blue, purple
|Temp Metric=°F
|min_zone=7
|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|max_zone=10
|image=Teucrium capitatum2006.jpg
|image_width=240
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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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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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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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