Micromeria graeca(L.) Benth. ex Rchb.

WFO wfo-0000243277 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Micromeria graeca, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. a Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-05-08 / obs. 127957907
Micromeria graeca, photographed by Dyhia YOUSFI
fig. b Dyhia YOUSFI, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127191786
Micromeria graeca, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. c Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 90813684
Micromeria graeca, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. d Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 57291390
Micromeria graeca, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. e Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108156360
Micromeria graeca, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. f Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128318131
Micromeria graeca, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131831728
Micromeria graeca, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. h Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204194215

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Micromeria graeca is native: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaTürkiyeAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Micromeria graeca, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 89 in flower of 94 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Micromeria graeca observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 89 of 94 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 82 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.

  • Clinopodium consentinum (Ten.) Kuntze
  • Clinopodium densiflorum (Benth.) Kuntze
  • Clinopodium graecum (L.) Kuntze
  • Clinopodium tenuifolium (Ten.) Kuntze
  • Clinopodium thymodes (De Not.) Kuntze
  • Micromeria approximata (Biv.) Rchb.
  • Micromeria calaminthoides Lojac.
  • Micromeria calaminthoides var. contracta Lojac.
  • Micromeria calaminthoides var. elongata Lojac.
  • Micromeria canescens (Guss.) Benth.
  • Micromeria cosentina N.Terracc.
  • Micromeria diffusa Lojac.
  • Micromeria echioides Lacaita ex Lojac.
  • Micromeria echioides var. angustifolia Lojac.
  • Micromeria echioides var. gasparinii Lojac.
  • Micromeria echioides var. gossypina Lojac.
  • Micromeria echioides var. griseocanescens Lojac.
  • Micromeria echioides var. humillima Lojac.
  • Micromeria echioides var. strigosa Lojac.
  • Micromeria fruticulosa (Bertol.) Šilic
  • Micromeria graeca subsp. micrantha (Brot.) Rivas Mart., T.E.Díaz & Fern.Gonz.
  • Micromeria graeca var. angustifolia (C.Presl) Benth.
  • Micromeria graeca var. angustifolia-canescens Guss.
  • Micromeria graeca var. angustifolia-glabrata (C.Presl) Guss.

and 58 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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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