Thyme
Growth habit
Herbaceous
Perennation
Perennial
Location
Source of plant
Harriet Ballard Flannery, Well-Sweep Herb Farm
Description
Plants prostrate, wide-spreading; leaves broadly ovate to nearly orbicular, 5-8 mm long, 3.0-4.5 mm wide, with scattered long hiars above, margin ciliate all around; corolla rose-purple, 5-6 mm long, flowershermaphroditic, borne late May to late June. Many authors have referred to `Hall's Woolly' as a morefloriferous clone of T. lanuginosus (or T. pseudolanuginosus), implying that the former was directly derived from the latter. In this author's opinion, `Hall's Woolly' is merely another fairly pubescent form of T. praecox subsp. arcticus. Unfortunately, the nomenclatural confusion associated with the name T. lanuginosus has resulted in the application of this name to pubescent forms of different species.
USDA Hardiness Zone
4
Special characteristics
foliage characteristics