Thyme Family:-

The Thyme Family are "non-woody, often aromatic plants with normally 2-lipped flowers, often in whorled heads or spikes on square leafy stems; the upper lip often undived or occasionally missing, the lower usually 3-lobed, or the corolla may have 4-5 more or less equal lobes. Calyx-teethsimilarly arranged in two lips; stamens usually 4, often protruding from the flower. Fruits of 4 nutlets, well covered by the calyx. Leaves in opposite pairs, undivided.

Mints

Perennials, varying from prostrate to 3 feet high, with an aromatic smell, usually of the well known minty savour, but distinctive in several species. Flowers small, usually some shade of lilac, bell-shaped with 4 or more or less equal petal-like corolla-lobes, in close whorls; calyx 5-toothed; stamens 4, often projecting. Mints are very variable, and hybrids, varieties and sports readily perpetuate themselves by runners. The hybrids often occur in the absence of their parents." from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978.

Thyme Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Sundew to Thyme Wild Flower Families Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Large Apple Mint

Mentha alopecuroides

August-September

Gardens (widespread, but local, especially near gardens)

Large Hemp-Nettle

(Large-flowered Hemp-Nettle)

Galeopsis speciosa

July-September

An annual weed of cultivated, marginal and waste ground, often within root-crops (especially potatoes) on peaty soils. 0-445 m (Clun Forest, Salop).

Large Wild Thyme

Thymus pulegiodes

July onwards

A prostrate perennial herb of bare ground, short turf or coarse grassland on chalk, more rarely on sands and gravels on heaths and fixed dunes. It is more tolerant of competition than Thymus polytrichus. Lowland.

Flower from Chilterns

Flowers

Foliage

Form from Chilterns on 20 August

Lesser Calamint

Calamintha nepeta

(Clinopodium calamintha)

July-September

A short-lived perennial herb of dry, South-facing banks and rough grass and on calcareous, sandy or gravelly soils. Formerly a pasture plant, it is now largely confined to roadsides, railway banks, churchyards and waste ground. Lowland.

Lesser Skullcap

(Lesser Stitchwort)

Scutellaria minor

July onwards

A perennial herb of wet heaths, bogs, marshes and moist, heathy woodlands on acidic, oligotrophic or slightly mesotrophic soils. 0-440 m (Woodhead, Cheshire).

Limestone Bugle

Ajuga pyramidalis

April-May

A perennial herb of free-draining slopes, rock crevices and shallow peat in open heathland and grassland overlying moderately acidic, or occasionally neutral or basic, soils. Reproduction is mainly from seed, which is long-lived and often germinates after disturbance. 0-650 m on Ill Bell (Westmorland).

Limestone Woundwort

Stachys alpina

June onwards

A perennial herb of open woodlands, wood-borders, hedge banks and trackways on thin soils overlying calcareous rock. Lowland.

Marjoram

Origanum vulgare

July-September

This herbaceous perennial herb of dry, infertile, calcareous soils is found in grassland, hedge banks, and scrub, and is a colonist of bare or sparsely vegetated ground, including quarries and road verges. It is occasionally naturalised from gardens. It is intolerant of heavy grazing. 0-410 m (N.W. Yorks.).

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Marsh Woundwort

Stachys palustris

July onwards

A perennial herb of damp places. It grows by streams, rivers, ditches and ponds, in fens, marshes and swamps, on rough ground and occasionally in cultivated fields. It is typically found on intermittently flooded and poorly drained soils.

Flower on 22 August

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Meadow Sage

Salvia pratensis

June-July

A long-lived perennial herb of unimproved grassland, lane-sides, road verges and disturbed ground on well-drained soils overlying chalk and limestone. It is occasionally established from gardens or as a casual in waste places. Lowland.

Flower from Liechenstein on 17 May

Flowers from Liechenstein on 17 May

Foliage

Form from Triesenburg in Liechenstein on 17 May

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Motherwort

Leonarus cardiaca

July-September

Gardens (a rare herb, usually near buildings). Research on motherwort is limited but the unique published study seems to confirm the interest for this plant for treatments for high blood pressure  Planta Med 2009.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Pennyroyal

Mentha pulegium

August onwards

A short-lived perennial herb of seasonally inundated grassland overlying silt and clay. The majority of native populations are now confined to pools, runnels, ruts and poached areas on heavily grazed village greens, but habitats also include damp heathy pastures, lake shores and coastal grassland. Lowland.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Peppermint

Mentha piperita

(Mentha aquatica x spicata)

August-September

A rhizomatous perennial herb of damp ground and waste places. Glabrous plants are thought to be garden escapes or throw-outs, while pubescent forms are likely to have arisen spontaneously.

Red Dead-Nettle

Lamium purpureum

Throughout the year

This annual is a frequent colonist of fertile and disturbed soils, and is found in cultivated and waste ground, gardens, hedgerows, on roadside verges, along railways, around rock outcrops and in rough grassland. 0-610 m (Grasshill, Co. Durham).

Flower

Flowers

Foliage from Rochester in Kent

Form from Rochester

Red Hemp-Nettle

Galeopsis angustifolia

July onwards

An annual of arable land, waste places and open ground on calcareous substrates, including limestone pavements and scree; also found on eskers and on coastal sand and shingle. This late-flowering species often fails to set seed within winter-sown crops. 0-320 m (Derbys.).

Flower from Dungeness in Kent on 27 July

Flowers

Foliage

Form from Dungeness on 27 July

Self-Heal

Prunella vulgaris

June onwards

A patch-forming perennial herb of neutral and calcareous grassland, growing in clearings in woods, in meadows, pastures and lawns, on roadsides and waste ground, typically associated with moist, fertile soils. It forms clonal patches in short-grazed turf and spreads by the detachment of daughter ramets. 0-755 m (Knock Fell, Westmorland), and 845 m on Great Dun Fell (Westmorland).

Flower

Flowers

Foliage from Stoer on 10 June

Form from Stoer in Sutherland on 10 June

Spear-Mint

Mentha spicata

August-September

A rhizomatous perennial herb naturalised in a variety of damp or wet habitats, and on rough and waste ground, usually close to habitation. Generally lowland, but reaching 350 m at Alston (Cumberland).

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form on 23 August

Spotted Dead-Nettle

Lamium maculatum

May onwards

This rhizomatous or stoloniferous perennial herb is naturalised on rough ground, rubbish tips, roadsides and waste places, usually close to habitation. Generally lowland, but recorded at 490 m above Garrigill (Cumberland).

Tall Mint

Mentha smithiana

(Menta aquatica x arvensis x spicata)

July onwards

A rhizomatous perennial herb of damp places and on waste ground, occasionally arising spontaneously where Mentha spicata and Mentha x verticillata occur together, but more typically a garden throw-out. It is usually sterile. Lowland.

Wall Germander

Teucrium chamaedrys

July-September

This perennial herb is usually found on walls, rocks and dry banks. A population of small, almost prostrate, plants has been known in cliff-top chalk grassland at Cuckmere Haven (East Sussex) since 1945, where it may be native (Rose, 1988). Lowland.

Flower from East Malling in Kent on 23 October

Flowers

Foliage from East Malling on 23 October

Form from East Malling on 23 October

Water Germander

Teucrium scordium

July onwards

This stoloniferous perennial herb has been recorded in a variety of wetland habitats with fluctuating water levels, including the margins of dune-slack pools, reed-fen, clay-pits and the banks of rivers, ponds and ditches. In Ireland it is often recorded from turloughs. Flowering and seed production can be poor. Lowland.

Water Mint

Mentha aquatica

July-September

A rhizomatous perennial herb, typically associated with permanently wet habitats adjacent to open water, often partially or wholly submerged. It grows by ditches, ponds and rivers, in marshes, wet pastures, dune-slacks and fens, and in wet woods. It spreads clonally by extensive rhizomes, and by detached rhizome fragments, which are often dispersed by water.

Flower from Sandwich in Kent on 28 August

Flowers

Foliage

Form

White Dead-Nettle

Lamium album

March onwards

A rhizomatous or sometimes stoloniferous perennial herb of secondary woodland, hedge-banks, waysides and rough ground, often growing on fertile soils close to habitation. 0-345 m (Garrigill, Cumberland).

Flower

Flowers

Foliage from Rochester in Kent

Form

White Horehound

Marrubium vulgare

June onwards

A perennial herb, probably native only near the sea on open, exposed cliff-top grasslands and slopes overlying limestone and chalk, and on sandy banks and verges in Breckland. It is cultivated for tea and its medicinal properties, and is naturalised in rough and waste places; it also occurs as a wool-shoddy alien. Lowland.

White Woundwort

(Yellow Woundwort)

Stachys recta

June-October

A perennial herb naturalised on waste ground at Barry Docks (Glamorgan) and found as a casual elsewhere.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Whorled Mint

Mentha x verticillata

(Mentha aquatica x arvensis)

July onwards

A rhizomatous perennial herb of damp places, including arable fields, wet grassland, track-sides, woodland rides, marshes, river-banks, lake-shores, pond-sides and disturbed ground. It often grows in slightly drier habitats than M. aquatica. It is usually sterile; highly fertile plants are sometimes found and may be back-crosses. Generally lowland, but reaching 365 m at Beguildy (Rads.).

Wild Basil

Clinopodium vulgare

July onwards

A rhizomatous perennial herb of hedges, woodland margins, coarse scrubby grassland, coastal cliffs and sand dunes, typically on dry calcareous soils. It is also found on waste ground, old quarries, and railway-sides. 0-395 m (W. Perth).

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Wild Catmint

Nepeta cataria

July-September

A perennial herb of open grassland, waysides, hedge banks, roadsides and rough ground on calcareous soils. In addition to such long-established populations, plants occasionally escape from gardens and give rise to casual populations which rarely persist for more than a few seasons. The seed is long-lived. Lowland.

Wild Thyme

(Wild Creeping Thyme)

Thymus drucei

(Thymus polytrichus subsp. britannicus, Thymus praecox subsp. arcticus)

June-August

Short turf and rocks in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

Flower from Cornwall on 19 September

Flowers

Foliage with White Flowers

Form from Glen Affric in Inverness on 19 June

Wood Calamint

Calamintha sylvatica

(Calamintha menthifolia, Clinopodium menthifolium)

August onwards

A rhizomatous perennial herb of lightly-shaded woodland edges and scrub on a single shady bank on chalk in the Isle of Wight.

Wood-Sage

Teucrium scorodonia

July-September

A rhizomatous perennial herb of well-drained, acidic to mildly calcareous mineral soils, occurring in a wide range of habitats including woodland, hedgerows, scrub, heaths, limestone grassland and pavement, mountain ledges, dunes and shingle, and amongst Pteridium. 0-550 m (Pistyll Rhaeadr, Monts.).

Flower

Flowers from Farningham Wood on 29 July

Foliage from Dungeness in Kent on 24 September

Form

Yellow Archangel

Galeobdolon luteum

(Lamium galeobdolon, Lamiastrum galeobdolon subsp. galeobdolon)

May-June

A stoloniferous herbaceous perennial herb of deciduous woods, woodland edges and hedgerows. Lowland.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage from Triesenburg on 21 May

Form from Triesenburg in Liechenstein on 21 May

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