Tag: Wild Basil

  • Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare)

    Clinopodium vulgare

    More pictures of this pretty little mint growing along the Montour Trail in Moon Township. For a description of the species, see the Clinopodium vulgare reference page.

    Satureja vulgaris
    Wild Basil
    Clinopodium vulgare
    Clinopodium vulgare
    Wild Basil
    Photographed September 24 with a Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6.
  • Wild Basil (Clinopodium vulgare)

    Wild Basil (Satureja vulgaris or Clinopdium vulgare)

    A mint that grows fuzzy heads of pinkish flowers. In many references this is Satureja vulgaris, and it has gone by many other names as botanists have tried to sort out this branch of the mint family. It is either native or introduced or both: the USDA PLANTS database has it as native throughout its range in North America; the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center says that it “is native in the northern part of its range but was probably introduced from Europe, where it is widespread, in the southern part”; other sources list it as entirely introduced.

    These plants were growing along the Montour Trail in Moon Township.

    Wild Basil (Satureja vulgaris or Clinopdium vulgare)
    Wild Basil (Satureja vulgaris or Clinopdium vulgare)
    Photographed August 30 with a Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6.