Micromeria juliana(L.) Benth. ex Rchb.

WFO wfo-0000243319 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Micromeria juliana, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. a Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-07-30 / obs. 46856312
Micromeria juliana, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. b Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28899374
Micromeria juliana, photographed by Flora_DUMO
fig. c Flora_DUMO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175894895
Micromeria juliana, photographed by Martin Scheuch
fig. d Martin Scheuch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144842178
Micromeria juliana, photographed by Ljaž
fig. e Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146333107
Micromeria juliana, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. f Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58869136
Micromeria juliana, photographed by Flora_DUMO
fig. g Flora_DUMO, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176275147
Micromeria juliana, photographed by Jörg Hempel
fig. h Jörg Hempel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 457447

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05136045
Filed as
Micromeria juliana (L.) Benth. ex Rchb.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Micromeria juliana is native: Algeria, Libya, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaLibyaEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaFranceGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Micromeria juliana, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Libya LBY

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 109 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 0.7 °C 5.1 °C 7.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.7 °C 26.6 °C 31.6 °C
Annual rainfall 468 mm 1,015 mm 1,730 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 20 mm 138 mm 189 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 109 research-grade observations of Micromeria juliana that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 15 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 julianum (L.) Kuntze
  • Micromeria juliana f. barbulata (K.Malý) Šilic
  • Micromeria juliana f. latifolia (Vis.) Šilic
  • Micromeria juliana var. angustifolia Vis.
  • Micromeria juliana var. hirsuta (C.Presl) Benth.
  • Micromeria juliana var. latifolia Vis.
  • Micromeria reinholdii Heldr. ex Boiss.
  • Sabbatia corymbosa Moench
  • Satureja hirsuta C.Presl
  • Satureja juliana L.
  • Satureja juliana f. barbulata K.Malý
  • Satureja parviflora C.Presl
  • Satureja sophia Steud.
  • Satureja spicata Crantz
  • Satureja virgata Stokes

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.

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