Teucrium capitatumL.

Felty germander

WFO wfo-0000321949 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Teucrium capitatum, photographed by Santiago Martín-Bravo
fig. a Santiago Martín-Bravo, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-23 / obs. 200118021
Teucrium capitatum, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. b Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189791888
Teucrium capitatum, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. c Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160513161
Teucrium capitatum, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. d Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160065903
Teucrium capitatum, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159565052
Teucrium capitatum, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158885855
Teucrium capitatum, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135121883
Teucrium capitatum, photographed by Dyhia YOUSFI
fig. h Dyhia YOUSFI, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135475212

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Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Teucrium capitatum is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, East Aegean Is., Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanEast Aegean Is.Gulf StatesIranIraqKazakhstanKuwaitLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanAlbaniaBulgariaCorseGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Teucrium capitatum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kuwait KUW
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 151 in flower of 227 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Teucrium capitatum 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. 151 of 227 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 44 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.

  • Chamaedrys capitata (L.) Raf.
  • Polium album Garsault
  • Polium capitatum (L.) Mill.
  • Teucrium achaemenis Schreb.
  • Teucrium album Poir.
  • Teucrium belion Schreb.
  • Teucrium capitatum subsp. gussonii Nyman
  • Teucrium capitatum subsp. gypsicola Mateo & Arán
  • Teucrium capitatum subsp. valentinum (Schreb.) P.P.Ferrer, E.Laguna, R.Roselló, Gómez Nav., A.Guillén & J.B.P
  • Teucrium capitatum subvar. rubriflorum Rouy
  • Teucrium capitatum var. gracillimum Rouy
  • Teucrium capitatum var. lazari Sennen & Mauricio
  • Teucrium capitatum var. microcephalum Sennen
  • Teucrium capitatum var. mirandanum Font Quer & Sennen
  • Teucrium capitatum var. nevadense Sennen
  • Teucrium capitatum var. polioides Rouy
  • Teucrium capitatum var. riojanus Sennen & Elías
  • Teucrium commune subsp. capitatum (L.) Rouy
  • Teucrium commune var. intermedium Rouy
  • Teucrium commune var. polioides Rouy
  • Teucrium cymosum Pers.
  • Teucrium majorana Pers.
  • Teucrium majoricum Rouy
  • Teucrium pii-fontii (P.Palau) Greuter & Burdet

and 20 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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