Cretan Germander / بَقلَة الغزال

كاميندرا / قعيده / زجاته / جَعْدَة كريت / بَقلة العَوف / زيتة / شرش النسا / الجعدة الكريتية

Teucrium creticum L.

Flowers, May. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Unknown
Blooming period
May to September
Seed collection period
October to January

Description

Perenniality
Perennial
Petal colour
  • Violet
Leaf type
  • Entire
Life form
  • Chamaephyte

Scientifc data

Genus
Teucrium
Family
Lamiaceae
Wikidata item
Q3104241
GBIF Item
Teucrium creticum L. (3897353)

References

  1. Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
  2. Teucrium creticum L. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-22.
  3. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  4. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.

Citation

Teucrium creticum L. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/643 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.

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