Teucrium polium
Teucrium polium
Ssp polium: Acıyavşan
Suffruticose perennial. Stems 10-40 cm, prostrate to erect, with white, grey lanuginose-tomentose or crisped indumentum, internodes shorter or longer than leaves. Leaves oblong to narrowly obovate or linear, obtuse, crenate to the base or middle, flat or revolute-margined, usually tomentose. Flowers very shortly pedicellate, borne in heads . Bracts linear-spathulate, crenate or entire, shorter to slightly longer than calyces. Calyx 3-5 mm, tubular-obconical, usually densely lanuginose or adpressed-canescent, divided to 1/4-1/3 into subequal, obtuse teeth. Corolla whitish, proximal lobes occasionally glabrous. Nutlets 2 mm. Fl. 6-9. Dry places, Quercus scrub, rocky slopes; steppe, dunes, field margins etc., s.l. 2050 m.
An exceptionally variable polymorphic species, especially in Turkey. Although most of the Turkish material can be assigned to about 10 infraspecific groups with their own centres of distribution, morphological and geographical overlap is common.
