European germander with one-sided racemes of yellow flowers; naturalized in North America. Synonym:Teucrium scorodonia.
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Subshrub with serrate leaves and cream-colored to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America. Synonyms:American germander, Teucrium canadense.
... was a good deal to be said about the unusual mortality among "Plymouth-Rocks" owing to an alarming prevalence of "pip," which malady, however, that lady found to be gradually yielding to a heroic treatment introduced into her basse-cour by one Coulon, a piney wood sage of some repute as ... — At Fault • Kate Chopin