Taxon: Thymus praecox Opiz

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Thymus praecox subsp. britannicus (no accessions)
• Thymus praecox subsp. caucasicus (1 accessions)

Common names:

• mother-of-thyme   (Source: Cornucopia [as T. praecox subsp. arcticus]) – English   [Thymus praecox subsp. britannicus]
  
• wild thyme   (Source: F BritStace [as T. polytrichus subsp. brittanicus]) – English   [Thymus praecox subsp. britannicus]
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Iceland; Norway; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Bocher, T. W. et al. 1968. The flora of Greenland.
• 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).
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. [= T. arcticus (Durand) Ronniger].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Thymus praecox.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Thymus praecox.

Synonyms:

• Thymus britannicus Ronniger [≡ Thymus praecox subsp. britannicus]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Thymus caucasicus Willd. ex Ronniger [≡ Thymus praecox subsp. caucasicus]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Thymus polytrichus subsp. britannicus (Ronniger) Kerguélen [≡ Thymus praecox subsp. britannicus]
  
• Thymus praecox subsp. arcticus (Durand) Jalas [= Thymus praecox subsp. britannicus]
  
• Thymus serpyllum var. arcticus Durand [= Thymus praecox subsp. britannicus]
  

Check other web resources for Thymus praecox Opiz:

• 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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