Teucrium chamaedrys L. Lamiaceae. Wall Germander. Distribution: Europe. Teucrium is named after king Teucer (who lived in the era between 1400 and 1000 BC) the first King of Troy. Dioscorides named a medicinal herb after Teucer, and Linnaeus consolidated this in 1753

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(Stearn, 1994). Lyte (1578) recommended it for cough, shortness of breath, dropsy, strangury, for inducing menstruation, hardness of the spleen, and cataracts. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

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