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Teucrium scorodonia L. (Wood Sage)

Notes (MWS) A common plant of light shade or scrub around the edges of acid woodland and heathland (pH4-5), but with other ecotypes adapted to calcareous habitats (pH>7).

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Teucrium scorodonia In flower 18 July 2007 Merioneth Wales 4
Teucrium scorodonia Plant 21 July 1971 East Sussex England 1
Teucrium scorodonia Plant 25 July 1970 Surrey England 1

Suggested Literature

General Works

Hutchinson, T.C., 1968 Biological Flora of the British Isles: Teucrium scorodonia L.

Teucrium scorodonia may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Teucrium scorodonia:

is foodplant of larva Meligethes obscurus - a pollen beetle (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Bullock, J.A., 1992
Photos leaf (live) live leaf is spotted by hypophyllous telium Puccinia annularis - a rust fungus (Uredinales: Pucciniaceae) Restricted Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 [causes pale yellow or brown spots]
leaf leaf is grazed by adult Longitarsus membranaceus - Wood Sage Flea Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) UK/Ireland Kevan D.K., 1967
Bullock, J.A., 1992
leaf leaf is grazed by larva Longitarsus membranaceus - Wood Sage Flea Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) UK/Ireland Restricted Kevan D.K., 1967
Bullock, J.A., 1992
Photos stem (dead) dead stem is decayed by long stalked apothecium Lachnum virgineum - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997
stem (patchily blackened, dead) patchily blackened, dead stem is decayed by sessile or subsessile apothecium Calycellina chlorinella - a discomycete (Helotiales: Hyaloscyphaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997

Teucrium scorodonia may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
LAMIACEAE
(dead-nettles, mints and scented herbs - formerly Labiatae)
Teucrium
(germanders)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook
Kevan D.K., 1967 The British Species of the genus Longitarsus (Col., Chrysomelidae)
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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