Thymus vulgaris (
common thyme,
German thyme,
garden thyme or just
thyme) is a
species of
flowering plant in the mint
family Lamiaceae,
native to southern Europe from the western Mediterranean to southern Italy. Growing to tall by wide, it is a bushy, woody-based
evergreen subshrub with small, highly aromatic, grey-green leaves and clusters of purple or pink flowers in early summer.