Taxon:
Thymus serpyllum L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:590. 1753
Verified:
05/15/1992
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
- http://www.skud.info
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Common names
English
Breckland thyme – Breckland-garden – creeping thyme – mother-of-thyme – wild thyme – French
serpolet – thym sauvage – German
Feldthymian – Quendel – Portuguese
tomilho – Spanish
serpol – tomillo – Swedish
backtimjan – Transliterated Russian
tim'jan polzučij –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia | Eastern Siberia | Dauria |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Siberia | Russian Federation-Western Siberia | Western Siberia | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Belarus | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Estonia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Latvia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Lithuania | | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Russian Federation-European part | European part | |
1 | Native | Europe | East Europe | Ukraine | | n. |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Austria | | n. |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Belgium | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Czechoslovakia | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Germany | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Hungary | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Netherlands | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Middle Europe | Poland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Denmark | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Finland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Norway | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Sweden | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | United Kingdom | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Former Yugoslavia | | n. |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | France | | n.e. |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Asia-Temperate
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SIBERIA:
Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia], Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia [Eastern Siberia (Dauria)]
Europe
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EAST EUROPE:
Russian Federation-European part [European part], Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine (n.)
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MIDDLE EUROPE:
Austria (n.), Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland
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NORTHERN EUROPE:
Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden
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SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Former Yugoslavia (n.)
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
France (n.e.)
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –