Thymus pannonicusAll.

WFO wfo-0000324502 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Thymus pannonicus, photographed by ll r Ирина
fig. a ll r Ирина, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 205744357
Thymus pannonicus, photographed by Liubov Ilminska
fig. b Liubov Ilminska, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204048345
Thymus pannonicus, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203312399
Thymus pannonicus, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. d Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137203843
Thymus pannonicus, photographed by Andrey Sdobnikov
fig. e Andrey Sdobnikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135668113
Thymus pannonicus, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. f Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140658446
Thymus pannonicus, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. g Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134289955
Thymus pannonicus, photographed by Татьяна Горбушина
fig. h Татьяна Горбушина, CC0 1.0 / obs. 132626087

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Thymus pannonicus is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Krym, North European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanKirgizstanKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanWest SiberiaXinjiangAustriaBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyKrymNorth European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainUkraine
Native distribution of Thymus pannonicus, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
North European Russia RUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

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 85 in flower of 99 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Thymus pannonicus 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. 85 of 99 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,013 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -18.9 °C -11.6 °C -4.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.2 °C 24.6 °C 27.9 °C
Annual rainfall 365 mm 562 mm 691 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 54 mm 100 mm 128 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,013 research-grade observations of Thymus pannonicus 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 74 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.

  • Origanum hirsutum Kuntze
  • Thymus amictus Klokov
  • Thymus cadevallii Sennen & Pau
  • Thymus calvifrons Borbás & Heinr.Braun
  • Thymus carniolicus Borbás ex Déségl.
  • Thymus chamaedrys var. vestitus Lange
  • Thymus costei Sennen
  • Thymus eisensteinianus Opiz
  • Thymus freixei Sennen
  • Thymus froelichianus Opiz
  • Thymus froelichianus subsp. allionii Ronniger
  • Thymus gabrielis Sennen
  • Thymus gouraudii Sennen
  • Thymus hirsutus M.Bieb.
  • Thymus lanuginosus var. pannonicus (All.) Heinr.Braun
  • Thymus latifolius (Besser) Andrz.
  • Thymus laxifoliatus Sennen
  • Thymus marschallianus Willd.
  • Thymus marschallianus var. calvifrons Borbás & Heinr.Braun
  • Thymus marschallianus var. latifolius Besser
  • Thymus pannonicus subsp. marschallianus (Willd.) Soó
  • Thymus pannonicus var. calvifrons (Borbás & Heinr.Braun) Soó
  • Thymus pannonicus var. latifolius (Besser) Jalas
  • Thymus pannonicus var. marschallianus (Willd.) K.Koch

and 50 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.

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.