Thymus willdenowiiBoiss.

WFO wfo-0000324964 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Thymus willdenowii, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. a Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-27 / obs. 132392856
Thymus willdenowii, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. b Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126933227
Thymus willdenowii, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. c Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126932962
Thymus willdenowii, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. d Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125785985
Thymus willdenowii, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. e Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 125161170
Thymus willdenowii, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. f Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121690708
Thymus willdenowii, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120622686
Thymus willdenowii, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. h Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120623178

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Thymus willdenowii is native: Algeria, Morocco, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoSpain
Native distribution of Thymus willdenowii, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Spain SPA EUROPE

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.

  • Origanum diffusum Kuntze
  • Origanum hirtum Kuntze
  • Thymus afer (Pau & Font Quer) Villar
  • Thymus albiflorus (Batt.) G.May
  • Thymus algeriensis var. antiatlanticus (Emb. & Maire) G.May
  • Thymus ciliatus subsp. albiflorus Batt.
  • Thymus diffusus Salzm. ex Benth.
  • Thymus diffusus Boiss.
  • Thymus hirtus Willd.
  • Thymus hirtus var. albiflorus (Batt.) Briq.
  • Thymus hirtus var. antiatlanticus Emb. & Maire
  • Thymus hirtus var. diffusus Nyman
  • Thymus hirtus var. ketamarum Maire & Sennen
  • Thymus hirtus var. wallii Maire
  • Thymus mentagensis Batt.
  • Thymus mohamedii Tahiri & Rejdali
  • Thymus mohamedii subsp. rosatii Tahiri & Rejdali
  • Thymus mohamedii var. ebracteata Tahiri & Rejdali
  • Thymus mohamedii var. rosatii Tahiri & Rejdali
  • Thymus striatus Munby
  • Thymus tidighinii Tahiri & Rejdali
  • Thymus vulgaris var. hirtus Pau
  • Thymus zygis var. afer Pau & Font Quer

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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