Botanical Name: Teucrium cossonii majoricum
Common Name: Fruity teucrium
Type of Plant: dicot: perennial

Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape low, mounding, spreading perennial with gray foliage and heavy long display of rosy pink flowers
Height to 12"
Spread to 3'
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun
Soil any well drained soil
Hardiness hardy: zones 7-9, 14-24
 
Morphology:
Leaves linear, grayish and tomentose above, nearly white beneath to 1" long, 1/8" across, densely set on stems
Flowers terminal rounded clusters of tiny pink to lavender flowers; clusters to 1" across, borne heavily through spring and summer, into fall
Fruit tiny nutlet
 
Propagation:
semi-hardwood cuttings
 
Usage:
excellent rock garden specimen or small scale ground cover; works well along walkways, mixed with lavenders and other gray foliage plants; very versatile
 
Landscape Care:
Watering takes average watering; drought tolerant once acclimated
Fertilizing little needed
Pruning head back to control size, none usually needed
Pests/Diseases root rot in slow-draining soils
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Western Mediterranean region
Family: Lamiaceae

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