Teucrium botrys (cut-leaved germander)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Teucrium botrys, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis — fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204415365

Teucrium botrys, photographed by Pavel Kacl — fig. b Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199555362

Teucrium botrys, photographed by Petra Caltová — fig. c Petra Caltová, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199594706

Teucrium botrys, photographed by georges3 — fig. e georges3, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149361037

Teucrium botrys, photographed by Quentin Groom — fig. g Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 135558818

Teucrium botrys, photographed by Andreas Rockstein — fig. h Andreas Rockstein, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 19870825

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Native distribution of Teucrium botrys, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Austria	AUT	EUROPE
Baleares	BAL
Belgium	BGM
Czechia-Slovakia	CZE
France	FRA
Germany	GER
Hungary	HUN
Italy	ITA
Netherlands	NET
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Poland	POL
Romania	ROM
Spain	SPA
Switzerland	SWI
Ukraine	UKR
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Morocco	MOR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 57 in flower of 82 examined

50%

92%

94%

67%

Proportion of examined Teucrium botrys in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	1	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Apr	0	4	too few examined
May	7	14	50%	27% to 73%
Jun	23	25	92%	75% to 98%
Jul	16	17	94%	73% to 99%
Aug	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	3	4	too few examined
Nov	3	4	too few examined
Dec	0	1	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Teucrium botrys observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 57 of 82 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Botrys chamaedryoides Fourr.
Chamaedrys botrys (L.) Moench
Chamaedrys laciniata Gray
Monochilon bipinnatifidus Dulac
Scorodonia botrys (L.) Ser.
Teucrium alpinum L.
Teucrium botrydium St.-Lag.
Teucrium botrys f. albiflora Socorro & Aroza
Teucrium botrys var. albiflorum Lej.
Teucrium chamaedryoides (Fourr.) Bubani
Teucrium collinum Salisb.
Trixago botrys (L.) Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.