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Botanical Description

Junellia serpyllifolia). A somewhat lax and slender prostrate dwarf shrublet, the foliage covered in adpressed grey hair. Leaves in sessile pairs, rhomboid ovate, 2-3 by 1.5-2mm, thickish, entire, rigid, usually crowded along the stems but not imbricate except where they- form a flat rosette at the very apex of each shoot. Inflorescence a rounded to cone-shaped head on distinctly elongated, decumbent fertile stems l-6cm in length, clad in foliage more spaced out than on the sterile shoots, composed of twenty to thirty yellow-throated flowers 4-4.5 by 3-4mm, summer. Argentina, and less commonly in Chile, central and southern Patagonia on windswept, gravelly steppe at 300-1000m. Its author considered this a beautiful little species which exactly called to mind when out of flower the woolly form of Thymus polytrichus ssp britannicus, (syn. T. serpyllum of gardens, T. drucei, T. praecox arcticus).