Showing Food Lemon thyme
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| Name | Lemon thyme | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Thymus pulegioides | ||||||||||
| Description | Thymus pulegioides (common names broad-leaved thyme, lemon thyme) is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe. Growing to 5-25 cm (2-10 in) tall by 25 cm (10 in) wide, it is a small spreading subshrub with strongly aromatic leaves, and lilac pink flowers in early summer. The specific epithet pulegioides highlights its similarity to another species within Lamiaceae, Mentha pulegium (pennyroyal). | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00238 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Herbs and Spices | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Herbs | ||||||||||
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| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||
| Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||
| Order | Lamiales | ||||||||||
| Family | Lamiaceae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Thymus | ||||||||||
| Species | pulegioides | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 505500 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Thymus_pulegioides | ||||||||||
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