Field Thyme Seeds (Thymus pulegioides)

A wild and naturalizing (but non-invasive) European meadow species – excellent in semi-wild lawns and gardens.

Field thyme is a slow-growing, slow-spreading little plant (almost like a tiny shrub) that graces the world with citrus-scented foliage and deeply magenta flowers (quite favorable to honey bees, bumble bees, and carder bees). But, it is a plant that needs relatively shorter neighboring vegetation not to be choked out. (Think short meadows or field grasses less than 3 feet in height). Closer in, around the house, this is a plant that does very well in sunny, dry rock gardens with minimal, low nutrient soil.

To get a sense of this plant, think of it as a bit less dense and a bit more woody than its close relative wild creeping thyme (Thymus serpyllum) – however it is shorter and more horizontal in its growth than standard culinary thyme (Thymus vulgaris).  

This plant holds some incredible potential for use in tenacious multi-species ground cover complexes; consider it companion-planted within an ankle-high thicket of cranberry, strawberry, and lingonberry, wild creeping thyme, kinnikinnick, small wild onions and self heal, little tufty grasses with sedums and mosses – a kind of landscape vastly more intriguing and beautiful than a conventional lawn.

100+ Seeds (1-gram)