?a1425 (?1373) (1938) f. 27v (MED) Germandir haviþ sede like to a peny..hit helith þe potager..delyuereth woman of dede childe..soudith brokyn bonys.
(Harl. 221) 190 Germawnder, herbe, germandra.
1548 W. Turner sig. C.iv Chamedrys called..in englishe Germander or englishe Triacle.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens i. lxxvi. 112 Of Teucrion or wilde Germander.
1587 W. Harrison (1877) ii. xx. i. 326 Our common germander or thistle benet is..of..great power in medicine.
1607 E. Topsell 344 Take of Iermander foure ounces, of Gum dragant, and of dryed roses.
1633 T. Johnson (new ed.) ii. ccxii. 657 Before creeping Germander was knowne, this wilde kinde bare the name of Germander amongst the Apothecaries, and was vsed for the right Germander in the compositions of Medicines.
1688 R. Holme ii. 109/1 Tree Germander hath the Flowers..white, in a round pointed husk.
1751 J. Hill xxvi. 369 There are many Species of it [sc. germander], but the only one used in the Shops is that called the common Germander.
1789 J. Pilkington I. viii. 325 Veronica chamædris, Wild germander.
1811 A. T. Thomson ii. 390 Wall germander has been accounted tonic, stomachic [etc.].
1864 Ld. Tennyson 4 They, thinking that her clear germander eye Droopt in the giant-factoried city-gloom, Came, with a month's leave given them, to the sea.
1896 E. Step 2nd ser. 102 Wall Germander..is a garden escape, found rarely on old walls.
1916 L. B. Wilder xviii. 304 Germander, Teucrium Chamædrys, is a nice little woody plant with rose-coloured blossoms and pleasantly scented foliage.
1964 E. Salisbury (ed. 2) v. 126 An annual or biennial plant of southern and central Europe, which is a very rare weed of chalky fields in southern England and regarded as ‘native’ there, is Cut-leaved Germander (Teucrium botrys).
2008 S. Calhoun 52 I particularly enjoy the transitions through the seasons—when the germander first starts to bloom.