Taxon: Clinopodium vulgare L.

Common names:

• cushion-calamint   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• dog-mint   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• wild basil   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Bee plants   (fide F USSR)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia [s.w.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [n.e.], Minnesota [e.], Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [s.], Utah [Washington Co.]

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland. (HPl Mary) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist. (L Kentucky) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Cantino, P. D. & S. J. Wagstaff. 1998. A reexamination of North American Satureja s.l. (Lamiaceae) in light of molecular evidence. Brittonia 50:70.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist. (L Medit) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2. (F Ariz) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico. (F New Mex)
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban) [= Calamintha vulgaris (L.) Halacsy].
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio. (F Ohio)
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas. (L Minn) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. (F WVa) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania. (Atlas Penn) [= Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch].
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Calamintha clinopodium Spenn.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Satureja vulgaris (L.) Fritsch
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Clinopodium vulgare L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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