Thymus drucei Ronniger
Wild Thyme
Wild thyme is a low, mat-forming native subshrub, the commonest wild thyme across the British Isles (also known under the names Thymus polytrichus and Thymus praecox). It creeps over the ground on wiry, rooting stems clothed in tiny aromatic leaves, forming dense cushions only a few centimetres high.
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Wild thyme is a low, mat-forming native subshrub, the commonest wild thyme across the British Isles (also known under the names Thymus polytrichus and Thymus praecox). It creeps over the ground on wiry, rooting stems clothed in tiny aromatic leaves, forming dense cushions only a few centimetres high. In summer it is studded with rounded heads of small, two-lipped flowers in pinkish-purple to rose, releasing a warm, herby scent in the sun.
It is a plant of short, well-drained turf in open, sunny places, thriving on chalk and limestone grassland, heaths, sea cliffs, sand dunes, rocky outcrops and old anthills, and tolerating thin, poor soils. The flowers are hugely popular with bees, butterflies and other insects, and it is a key nectar plant on flowery grassland. Ideal for green roofs, rockeries, paving cracks and short-turf wildflower meadows and mixes.
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