Taxon: Thymus vulgaris L.

Common names:

• common thyme   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• English thyme   (Source: Culinary Herbs 607.) – English
  
• garden thyme   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• thyme   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• farigoule   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• frigoule   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• thym commun   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Thymian   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• timo   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• tomilho   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• tomillo   (Source: B. León, p.c.) – Spanish
  
• tomillo común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• kryddtimjan   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide F Jujuy; Ency CNatIn)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide Ency CNatIn)
  
• Medicines: source of thymol   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy [s.e.]
  Southwestern Europe: France [s.]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• widely 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).
• Cabrera, A. L., dir. 1977–. Flora de la provincia de Jujuy, Republica Argentina.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Lawrence, B. M. 1992. Chemical components of Labiatae oils and their exploitation. In: Harley, R. M. & T. Reynolds, eds., Advances in labiate science. 400.
• León, B. 1995. pers. comm. [re. Spanish common names].
• 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.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Small, E. 1997. Culinary herbs. In: Small, E., Culinary herbs. 607.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Thymus vulgaris.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Thymus vulgaris.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Thymus vulgaris.

Check other web resources for Thymus vulgaris L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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