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Thymus capitellatus is a small, erect subshrub from southwest Portugal, grown in the mint family for its aromatic foliage and white flowers. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and sandy, lean soil, as in its native dune and scrub habitat.
Thymus capitellatus is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, endemic to Portugal.
Thymus capitellatus is native to southwest Portugal and is strongly present around the Tagus Estuary and Sado Estuary, inhabiting moorlands, xerophilic scrub (cistus, heaths) and sometimes in pine, eucalyptus and acacia forests, colonizing sandy acid soils of a dune nature and above all paleodunes (stabilized dunes).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thymus capitellatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
