Thyme is a kind of flower, with purple, purple or lilac pink corolla, flowering from July to August, and nearly round or oval nuts. Can be used as ingredients, spices commonly used in European cooking, spicy taste, used to add to stews, eggs or soup; It is also used for viewing.

China, Gansu, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Shanxi, Hebei and Inner Mongolia. The model specimens were collected from Taohe Basin in Gansu and Qinghai.

I like warm, sunny and dry environment. I don't have high requirements for soil, but I grow well in calcareous soil with good drainage. Loose and well-drained land, sunny place. Born in rocky mountains, hillsides, valleys, ravines, roadsides and weeds, at an altitude of 1 100-3600 meters.

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Thyme plants are relatively low, and stolons grow along the ground and extend almost horizontally. Adventitious buds on stems can germinate many roots and form a strong root network, which can effectively prevent soil erosion.

Thyme, with its outstanding cold tolerance, drought tolerance, barren tolerance, pest resistance, fast growth, large flowers, long flowering period and pleasant fragrance, has become a rare and excellent ground cover plant in urban landscaping.

Because of its strong stress resistance, extensive ecological diversity and clonal growth characteristics, it can form natural dominant plant species or single dominant groups in many fragile habitats with serious soil degradation, and play an important ecological function in desertification community composition and ecological succession.