Origanum majoranaL.

sweet marjoram

WFO wfo-0000260658 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Origanum majorana, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-11-18 / obs. 28298533
Origanum majorana, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28298585
Origanum majorana, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28298620
Origanum majorana, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. d Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28298652
Origanum majorana, photographed by Colin Meurk
fig. e Colin Meurk, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 118880334
Origanum majorana, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28298706
Origanum majorana, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 28298663

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Origanum majorana is native: Cyprus, Türkiye CyprusTürkiye
Native distribution of Origanum majorana, 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
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
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.

Also published as 23 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.

  • Amaracus majorana (L.) Schinz & Thell.
  • Majorana cretica var. hortorum Alef.
  • Majorana dubia (Boiss.) Briq.
  • Majorana fragrans Raf.
  • Majorana hortensis Moench
  • Majorana majorana (L.) H.Karst.
  • Majorana mexicana M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Majorana ovalifolia Stokes
  • Majorana ovatifolia Stokes
  • Majorana suffruticosa Raf.
  • Majorana tenuifolia Gray
  • Majorana tenuifolia Raf.
  • Majorana uncinata Stokes
  • Majorana vulgaris Gray
  • Origanum confertum Pi.Savi
  • Origanum dubium Boiss.
  • Origanum majorana var. majoranoides (Willd.) Nyman
  • Origanum majorana var. tenuifolium Weston
  • Origanum majoranoides Willd.
  • Origanum odorum Salisb.
  • Origanum salviifolium Roth
  • Origanum syriacum subsp. dubium (Boiss.) Holmboe
  • Thymus majorana (L.) Kuntze

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.