Taxon: Origanum vulgare L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Origanum vulgare subsp. glandulosum (no accessions)
• Origanum vulgare subsp. gracile (2 accessions)
• Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum (1 accessions)
• Origanum vulgare subsp. virens (1 accessions)
• Origanum vulgare subsp. viridulum (no accessions)
• Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare (5 accessions)

Common names:

• wild marjoram   (Source: BSBI )
  

Economic importance:

• View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh; Nepal; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Estonia; Russian Federation - European part [s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

Other:

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit)
• Ietswaart, J. H. 1980. A taxonomic revision of the genus Origanum (Labiatae). Leiden Bot. Ser. 4:106–123.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Padulosi, S. et al., ed. 1997. Oregano. In: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. (Prom Underused Crops) 14:1–182.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta). (L Azores)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Origanum vulgare.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Origanum vulgare. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Origanum glandulosum Desf. [≡ Origanum vulgare subsp. glandulosum]
  
• Origanum gracile K. Koch [≡ Origanum vulgare subsp. gracile]
  
• Origanum heracleoticum L. [= Origanum vulgare subsp. viridulum]
  
• Origanum hirtum Link [≡ Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum]
  
• Origanum tyttanthum Gontsch. [= Origanum vulgare subsp. gracile]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Origanum virens Hoffmanns. & Link [≡ Origanum vulgare subsp. virens]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Origanum viridulum Martrin-Donos [≡ Origanum vulgare subsp. viridulum]
  
• Origanum vulgare subsp. viride (Boiss.) Hayek [= Origanum vulgare subsp. viridulum]
  
• Origanum vulgare var. viride Boiss. [= Origanum vulgare subsp. viridulum]
  

Check other databases for Origanum vulgare L.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Flower: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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