Teucrium poliumL.

WFO wfo-0000322436 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Teucrium polium, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. a Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 205117710
Teucrium polium, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. b Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172677942
Teucrium polium, photographed by Татьяна Максимова
fig. c Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161119320
Teucrium polium, photographed by Татьяна Максимова
fig. d Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159435115
Teucrium polium, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. e Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172575336
Teucrium polium, photographed by Olena V. Vakarenko
fig. f Olena V. Vakarenko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182015375
Teucrium polium, photographed by Olena V. Vakarenko
fig. g Olena V. Vakarenko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179868468
Teucrium polium, photographed by Olena V. Vakarenko
fig. h Olena V. Vakarenko, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179501817

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Teucrium polium is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Corse, France, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaCorseFranceSpain
Native distribution of Teucrium polium, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Corse COR EUROPE
France FRA
Spain SPA

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 31 in flower of 78 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Teucrium polium 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. 31 of 78 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 55 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 polium (L.) Raf.
  • Monochilon tomentosus (Lam.) Dulac
  • Polium angustifolium Mill.
  • Polium diffusum Mill.
  • Polium erectum Mill.
  • Polium fruticosum Mill.
  • Polium integerrimum Mill.
  • Polium latifolium Mill.
  • Polium perenne Gueldenst.
  • Polium pratense Gueldenst.
  • Polium ramosum Mill.
  • Polium serratum Mill.
  • Polium smyrnaeum Mill.
  • Polium spicatum Mill.
  • Teucrium aegypticum Pers.
  • Teucrium caespitulosum Dufour
  • Teucrium capitatum f. soloitanum (Maire) Maire
  • Teucrium capitatum subvar. caespitulosum (Dufour) Nyman
  • Teucrium capitatum var. chamaedrifolium Pau & Font Quer
  • Teucrium capitatum var. max-onnoi Sennen & Mauricio
  • Teucrium cephalotes Pomel
  • Teucrium chulilia Cav. ex Spreng.
  • Teucrium collinum Salisb.
  • Teucrium commune Rouy

and 31 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. 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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