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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Lawrence on May 21, 2015, 02:30:48 PM

Title: Spanish alpine
Post by: Lawrence on May 21, 2015, 02:30:48 PM

Just come back from a short break near Alicante, Spain and photographed this little beauty, any ideas please, maybe some kind of Teucrium perhaps ?????

Title: Re: Spanish alpine
Post by: Matt T on May 21, 2015, 02:57:54 PM

It looks similar to Teucrium chamaedrys, which I found with a very few flowers late in the season (02 Nov) in the Peloponnese. Could it be that?

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~gdk/stabg_new/poms/2006/aug06pom.html (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~gdk/stabg_new/poms/2006/aug06pom.html)

EDIT: pic uploaded is of a Lamium by mistake, not T.chamaedrys. Sorry for confusion.

Title: Re: Spanish alpine
Post by: Matt T on May 21, 2015, 03:03:56 PM

Or Teucrium marum might be more likely in that location?

Title: Re: Spanish alpine
Post by: Karaba on May 21, 2015, 03:47:58 PM

Hi Matt,
Your picture is not Teucrium chamaedrys and even not a Teucrium which looks like having to superior lip. Nevertheless, Lawrence's picture looks really like a Teucrium, maybe Teucrium buxifolium (or one of these very close species hifacense or rivasii ?)

Title: Re: Spanish alpine
Post by: Matt T on May 21, 2015, 04:34:08 PM

Sorry Yvain, in my haste I exported a Lamium pic instead! Folly of not checking before clicking.
You suggestions look to be a closer match with the more glaucous leaves.