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Micromeria thymifolia

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Authors: Fritsch   Scop.  

Botanical Description

Satureja thymifolia). Tufted perennial with mainly branched stems 20-40cm tall. Leaves 5-20mm long, elliptic to ovate, often remotely toothed and glandular dotted beneath. Flowers 5-9mm long, white and violet, in shortly branched clusters forming spikelike panicles, summer. Balkan peninsula, in dry rocky places.