Thymus hirtus, Willd.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 177

23. T. hirtus Willd. , Enum. PI. Hort. Berol. 623 (1809)

( T. diffusus Salzm. ex Bentham ).

Plant with long arcuate to procumbent woody branches and sometimes axillary leaf-clusters. Erect flowering stems up to 5 cm; axillary leaf-clusters absent or poorly developed. Leaves up to 6 x 2 mm, lanceolate to elliptic- rhombic, petiolate, puberulent, sparsely glandular-punctate; margins revolute, ciliate at base; lateral veins indistinct. Inflorescence capituliform. Bracts up to 5 x 3 mm, similar to the leaves, with revolute margins at least distally. Calyx c. 3 mm, hirsute, the lips as long as or longer than tube, upper teeth as wide as long, ciliate. Corolla pink. Gibraltar. Hs. (N.W. Africa.)