Clinopodium vulgareL.

Wild Basil

WFO wfo-0000893535 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Clinopodium vulgare, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. a Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 203846822
Clinopodium vulgare, photographed by Henry "Nick" Robertson
fig. b Henry "Nick" Robertson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 198995995
Clinopodium vulgare, photographed by Tristan Haab
fig. c Tristan Haab, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190057431
Clinopodium vulgare, photographed by Daniela Costa
fig. d Daniela Costa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197833704
Clinopodium vulgare, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. e Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188829942
Clinopodium vulgare, photographed by Cecil Smith
fig. f Cecil Smith, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179764889
Clinopodium vulgare, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. g Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174282703
Clinopodium vulgare, photographed by Chris Merck
fig. h Chris Merck, CC0 1.0 / obs. 171578191

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Flowering n = 3,362 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 3,362 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 49 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acinos vulgaris (L.) Pers.
  • Calamintha aegyptiaca Lam. ex Schur
  • Calamintha arundana (Boiss.) Benth.
  • Calamintha clinopodium (Vest) Spenn.
  • Calamintha clinopodium subsp. villosa (de Noé) Maire
  • Calamintha clinopodium var. abbreviatum Maire
  • Calamintha clinopodium var. glabrescens (Pomel) Batt.
  • Calamintha vulgaris (L.) Druce
  • Clinopodium aegyptiacum Mill.
  • Clinopodium arundanum (Boiss.) Nyman
  • Clinopodium atropurpureum Steud.
  • Clinopodium cimbricum (Böcher) Melnikov
  • Clinopodium clinopodium (Vest) Degen
  • Clinopodium glabrescens Pomel
  • Clinopodium neogaeum (Fernald) Melnikov
  • Clinopodium orientale (Bothmer) Melnikov
  • Clinopodium origanifacie Gilib.
  • Clinopodium plumosum Sieber
  • Clinopodium variegatum Steud.
  • Clinopodium villosum de Noé
  • Clinopodium vulgare f. glabratum Vandas
  • Clinopodium vulgare f. minus Šilic
  • Clinopodium vulgare f. parviflorum (Rohlena) Šilic
  • Clinopodium vulgare f. rubrotinctum Šilic

and 25 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.