Wood Sage (Teucrium scorodonia)

Plants with white flowers
Common Scurvy Grass	Danish Scurvy Grass
Prickly Saltwort	Rock Samphire
Sea Aster	Sea Mouse-ear
Brookweed	Sea Campion
Sea Carrot	Sea Kale
Sea Rocket	Dewberry
Burnet Rose	White Rock-rose
Wood Sage	Glasswort

Plants with yellow flowers
Evening Primrose	Common Rock-rose
Hoary Rock-rose	Golden Samphire
Yellow Horned Poppy	Field Fleawort
Silver Ragwort	Sea purslane
Wild Cabbage	Black Mustard
Bird's Foot Trefoil	Sea Wormwood
Yellow Stonecrop

Plants with red or pink flowers
Beach Rose	Greater Sea Spurrey
Red Valerian	Common Storksbill
Sand Spurrey	Hares Foot Clover
Sea Bindweed	Sea Pink
Hounds Tongue	Common Centaury
Spear-leaved Orache	Tree Mallow

Plants with blue or purple flowers
Common Sea Lavender	Rock Sea Lavender
Vernal Squill	Sea Holly
Sheep's Bit	Dune Pansy

Plants with green or brown flowers
Sea Beet	Sea Spurge
Alexanders	Sea Plantain

Grasses & Shrubs
Marram Grass	Lyme Grass
Cord Grass	Sea Buckthorn
Creeping Willow

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Wood Sage is a very common, inconspicuous plant which has a particular liking for coastal paths. Its pale yellow-green flowers can be seen from June to August. Leaves similar in shape to nettle leaves, but smaller, downy and bluntly-toothed. Height is 12 to 15 inches.