( Minor Wild Thyme )
Compact, low growing, mat forming herbaceous perennial or subshrub. Leaves are lance-shaped, medium green to grayish blue, lightly hairy, 1/4 inch long. Small, summer borne flowers are highly attractive to bees.
Thymus serpyllum 'Pink Chintz' (Mother of thyme, Wild thyme, Serpolet)
Thymus serpyllum Photo/Illustration: Courtesy of Park Seed
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The wild thyme found in England is mostly not Th. serpyllum, but the related species Th. drucei (common wild thyme).
Thyme sprigs
Thyme flower Another Note ...
It is said that Wild Thyme and Marjoram laid by milk in the dairy will prevent it being turned by thunder.
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Creeping thyme, mother-of-thyme, wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum)
Cress (Lepidium sativum)
Crinkled aponogeton (Aponogeton crispus)
Crocus (Crocus species)
Croton, Joseph's coat (Codiaeum variegatum)
Crown cactus (Rebutia species) ...
Continental Wild Thyme [English]: Thymus serpyllum serpyllum
Continental Wild Thyme [English]: Thymus serpyllum non
Continuation Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Continuation' ...
where the wild thyme blows." -Shakespeare's
Oberon
Variegated lemon thyme (Thymus citriodorus variegata) is one of the best year-round thymes.
Thymus serpyllum is the plant most guide books call Wild Thyme and list as being found naturalized in the US. Native to Europe, it and other wild and cultivated Thymes may have escaped cultivation in the US.
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine."
-William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream, II, 1 ...
Wild thyme (Thymus serpyllum)
Willow herb (Epilobium parviflorum)
Winter savory (Satureja montana)
Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
Wood avens, herb bennet (Geum urbanum)
Woodruff (Galium odoratum)
Wormwood, absinthe (Artemisia absinthium) ...
bird's-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
eyebright (Euphrasia spp.)
self heal (Prunella vulgaris)
violets (Viola spp.)
wild thyme (Thymus polytrichus) ...
This was the wild thyme mentioned in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. The Greeks used thyme as a temple incense, and it has been prized since ancient times as a honey plant.
Wild Thyme (Thymus serpyllum)
Willmott Blue Leadwort (Ceratostigma willmottianum)
Willmottiae (Potentilla nepalensis 'Miss Wilmot')
Willow Herb (Epilobium latifolium)
Willow Oak (Quercus phellos)
Willow-leaved Peppermint (Eucalyptus nicholii) ...
Cherry or Gean, Wild Clary, Wild Cotoneaster, Wild Daffodil, Wild Liquorice, Wild Lupin, Wild Madder, Wild Mignonette, Wild Oat, Wild Pansy, Wild Parsnip, Wild Pink, Wild Plum, Wild Privet, Wild Radish, Wild Service Tree, Wild Strawberry, Wild Thyme, ...
 See also: Thyme, Green, Thymus, Thymus serpyllum, Lemon
  
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