light pink rose on stem with green leaves

Wild Thyme

Thymus pulegioides
Lamiaceae

Growth Habit

Shrub

Description

Spreading, bushy shrub reaching 4" to 12" in height; stems hairy only on the angles and sometimes also on two opposite sides; leaves ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, mostly 5/16" long, cuneate, obtuse, glabrous and glandular dotted above with veins not mush raised beneath, petioled; inflorescence interrupted, oblong; corolla typically mauve.

Source of plant

Sandy Mush Herb Nursery, Harriet Ballard Flannery

USDA Hardiness Zone

4

Special characteristics

bee plant, medicinal/pharmaceutical