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Thymus comptus

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Botanical Description

Mat to tussock-forming with ascending flowering stems to 15cm long. Leaves 9-15mm long, linear to lanceolate, sparsely hairy and ciliate in the lower half, glaucous. Floral bracts leaf-like but shorter and broader. Flowers rose-pink, in spikes up to 10cm long with each whorl separate. Balkan peninsula, mainly near the eastern coast.