| Thymus | |
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| Thymus camphoratus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Nepetoideae |
| Tribe: | Mentheae |
| Genus: | Thymus L.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Thymus vulgaris L.
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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The genus Thymus (/ˈtaɪməs/ TY-məs;[3] thymes) contains about 350[4] species of aromatic perennial herbaceous plants and subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World.
Several members of the genus are cultivated as culinary herbs or ornamentals, when they are also called thyme after its best-known species, Thymus vulgaris or common thyme.
- ^ Linnaeus.Sp. Pl.: 590 (1753).
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book. 1995. pp. 606–607.
- ^ "Thymus Linnaeus". Flora of China.