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Teucrium oxylepis Font Quer

Lamiaceae · Spain

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Habitat figures
Coldest month, mean nightly low
1.2°C
Jan at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (the weather cell's ground is too far off) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
30°C
Jul and Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
572mm
9 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
14–51DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet winters: the rain comes October to February and April, read as a winter growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

About the genus · Teucrium

Teucrium is a cosmopolitan genus of flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae, commonly known as germanders. Plants in this genus are perennial herbs or shrubs, with branches that are more or less square in cross-section, leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and flowers arranged in thyrses, the corolla with mostly white to cream-coloured, lobed petals.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Teucrium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (420 mm of 581 mm) falls in October to February and April, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 9.1 °C against a yearly mean of 14.0 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: April to August and October.

Rain

581 mm in the median year at the habitat, 420 mm of it October to February and April. Wettest month December at 98 mm, driest month July at 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 491 mm to 820 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 572 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 581 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 14 to 51 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 12, the highest 90th-percentile month 51).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 1.2 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -2.4 °C to 3.6 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 30.0 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 1.2 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, January, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell whose ground is too far above or below the typical spot to correct for, and are not used.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 44 to 61% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Teucrium oxylepis through the yearWarmest months July and August, mean daily high 30 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 1.2 °C; 581 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-10°0°10°20°30°40°frost°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125150mm rainDLI 14–51RH 44–61%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 43 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C9 / 6–1211 / 6–1314 / 9–1716 / 10–1820 / 13–2226 / 19–2930 / 23–3330 / 23–3225 / 19–2718 / 13–2113 / 9–1610 / 6–12
Night °C1 / -2–42 / -2–54 / 0–66 / 0–89 / 4–1214 / 9–1717 / 12–2017 / 12–2014 / 9–1710 / 5–125 / 1–83 / -1–5
Rain mm61 / 49–9255 / 47–8645 / 39–6966 / 46–8146 / 31–6422 / 15–335 / 3–109 / 6–1334 / 29–4064 / 49–9576 / 62–11598 / 72–137
DLI16 / 14–1922 / 20–2531 / 30–3437 / 36–4143 / 42–4649 / 48–5051 / 50–5145 / 44–4735 / 34–3725 / 23–2817 / 15–2014 / 12–17
RH %59 / 51–6258 / 53–6054 / 52–5654 / 52–5752 / 51–5448 / 47–5044 / 42–4746 / 43–4851 / 48–5356 / 54–5759 / 54–6161 / 53–64

The daily extremes were not used: the correction for elevation, +1074 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's. So no cold floor is read for this species, and the coldest month's mean nightly low is not taken as one. What that cell gave, so corrected, over 44 years: absolute minimum -7.1 °C, 1st-percentile night -2.3 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 43 grid cells holding the 67 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1066:3499 (36.675, -5.025). Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 43 distinct grid cells holding 67 of the 67 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1066:3499 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 36.50_-5.000, lapse-corrected +1074 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1312 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeSpain · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker38.35, -3.52 · in the densest population, 55 records (67% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 82 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 67 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 12 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 2 km away. 6 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 11262724 (Teucrium oxylepis FontQuer): Kew's file holds it as Teucrium oxylepis Font Quer (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 82 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Carduncellus hispanicus Carduncellus hispanicus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Jorge ÍñiguezAntirrhinum hispanicum Antirrhinum hispanicum Plantaginaceae Photo: CC BY, frangpAnthericum baeticum Anthericum baeticum Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY, Mehdi ChetibiPaeonia broteri Paeonia broteri Paeoniaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Javier martinLinaria verticillata Linaria verticillata Plantaginaceae Photo: CC BY, frangpPtilostemon hispanicus Ptilostemon hispanicus Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Santiago Martín-Bravo

Other Teucrium 54 in the reference

Teucrium abutiloides Teucrium abutiloides Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgeTeucrium arduini Teucrium arduini Lamiaceae Photo: CC0, Mirko UbovićTeucrium argutum Teucrium argutum Native Germander Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg TasneyTeucrium aroanium Teucrium aroanium Lamiaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotTeucrium asiaticum Teucrium asiaticum Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Yves BasTeucrium aureum Teucrium aureum Gold germander Photo: CC BY, jeanjacquesgodonTeucrium betonicum Teucrium betonicum Betony Photo: CC BY, Vítor JorgeTeucrium bicolor Teucrium bicolor Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Álvaro Ibaceta R.Teucrium botrys Teucrium botrys Cut-leaved germander Photo: CC BY, Vladimír Fuka Teucrium bracteatum Lamiaceae Teucrium canadense Teucrium canadense American germander Photo: CC BY, Courtney R.Teucrium capitatum Teucrium capitatum Felty Germander Photo: CC BY, L Rose all 55 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Teucrium flavum subsp. oxylepis; Teucrium oxylepis f. marianum; Teucrium oxylepis subsp. gredense; Teucrium oxylepis subsp. marianum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Lamiaceae
Described by
Font Quer
Native to
Spain
Wild records
82 in range · 12 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 11262724, Teucrium oxylepis FontQuer (Kew's file holds it as Teucrium oxylepis Font Quer (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 36.50_-5.000, lapse-corrected +1074 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: the correction for elevation, +1074 m, is beyond the 1,000 m either way that a lapse rate is applied over, so the weather cell's ground is other terrain than the typical spot's, so no cold floor is shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 27 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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