Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Thymus integer

Thymus integer
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0

Thymus integer is a small, strongly aromatic, sprawling subshrub from Cyprus, usually under 10 cm tall, with white to dark rosy purple flowers from March to June. It grows best in a sunny, dry, well-drained spot, as it naturally occurs on rocky hillsides.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; overwatering causes rot.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or rocky mix with low fertility.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost but needs protection from prolonged freezing and wet cold.
How easy
Moderate
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Cyprus
Climate
subtropical

About

Thymus integer is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is a strongly aromatic, sprawling, gnarled subshrub generally less than 10 cm high. It produces white to dark rosy purple flowers between March and June.

Where it grows

This plant is often found on dry, rocky, igneous hillsides at altitudes of 100–1700 meters.

Other Thymus plants

Algerian Thyme · Wild Thyme · Spanish Lemon Thyme · Azores Thyme · Camphor Thyme · Thymus · Thymus capitellatus · Portuguese Thyme · Lemon Thyme · Thymus dubjanskyi · Caraway Thyme · Hyemalis Thyme

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thymus integer 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…