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:

• Algerian oregano   (Source: Oregano & Marjoram ) – English   [Origanum vulgare subsp. glandulosum]
  
• European oregano   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• Greek oregano   (Source: Ency Herbs ) – English   [Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum]
  
• oregano   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• pot marjoram   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• Russian oregano   (Source: Oregano & Marjoram ) – English   [Origanum vulgare subsp. gracile]
  
• wild marjoram   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• wild marjoram   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• wintersweet   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• niu zhi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• marjolaine   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• marjolaine sauvage   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• origan   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• origan vulgaire   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• borstiger gewöhnlicher Dost   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German   [Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum]
  
• brauner Dost   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• Dost   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• gewöhnlicher Dost   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Oregano   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• wilder Majoran   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• manjerona-brava   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• orégano   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Portuguese   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• orégano   (Source: Names Soukup ) – Spanish   [Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare]
  
• grekisk oregano   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum]
  
• kungsmynta   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - 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]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• 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.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Padulos, S. et al., eds. 1997. Oregano. In: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 14:1–182.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Origanum vulgare.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Origanum vulgare.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Origanum vulgare.

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 web resources 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.

Images:

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

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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