Thymus mongolicus(Ronniger) Ronniger

Mongolian thyme

WFO wfo-0000324405 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Thymus mongolicus, photographed by Алексей Ябс
fig. a Алексей Ябс, CC0 1.0 / 2020-07-18 / obs. 85063467
Thymus mongolicus, photographed by Алексей Ябс
fig. b Алексей Ябс, CC0 1.0 / obs. 85064168
Thymus mongolicus, photographed by Алексей Ябс
fig. c Алексей Ябс, CC0 1.0 / obs. 85064171
Thymus mongolicus, photographed by Алексей Ябс
fig. d Алексей Ябс, CC0 1.0 / obs. 85070226

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Thymus mongolicus is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiya
Native distribution of Thymus mongolicus, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK

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 4 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.

  • Thymus asiaticus Serg.
  • Thymus irtyschensis Klokov
  • Thymus mongolicus var. leucanthus H.L.Liu & D.Z.Ma
  • Thymus serpyllum var. mongolicus Ronniger

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.