A Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe, Collins, London, p. ^ 'The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species'.Creeping thyme does best with 6-8 hours of direct or indirect sunlight each day. Make sure the soil stays evenly moist but not soggy - too much moisture can lead to root rot. Ĭaring for creeping thyme is not hard, as long as it gets enough water and enough sun. Several cultivars have been produced, of which 'Pink Chintz' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It may also be used to replace a bluegrass lawn to xeriscape low to moderate foot traffic areas due to its tolerance for low water and poor soils. serpyllum are used as border plants and ground cover around gardens and stone paths. Cultivation Ĭreeping and mounding variants of T. serpyllum contain thymol, carvacrol, limonene, paracymene, gamma-terpinene and beta-caryophyllene. Wild thyme is one of the plants on which both the common blue butterfly and large blue butterfly larvae feed and it is also attractive to bees. It is a plant of thin soils and can be found growing on sandy-soiled heaths, rocky outcrops, hills, banks, roadsides and riverside sand banks. Wild thyme is native to the Palearctic realm of Europe and Asia. The fruit is a dry, four-chambered schizocarp. Each flower has four projecting stamens and two fused carpels. The upper petal is notched and the lower one is larger than the two lateral petals and has three flattened lobes which form a lip. The usually pink or mauve flowers have a tube-like calyx and an irregular straight-tubed, hairy corolla. The plant sends up erect flowering shoots in summer. The leaves are in opposite pairs, nearly stalkless, with linear elliptic round-tipped blades and untoothed margins. It forms matlike plants that root from the nodes of the squarish, limp stems. Wild thyme is a creeping dwarf evergreen shrub with woody stems and a taproot. The hardy plant tolerates some pedestrian traffic and produces odors ranging from heavily herbal to lightly lemon, depending on the variety. The strongly scented flowers are either lilac, pink-purple, magenta, or a rare white, all 4–6 mm long and produced in clusters. The oval evergreen leaves are 3–8 mm long. It is a low, usually prostrate subshrub growing to 2 cm (1 in) tall with creeping stems up to 10 cm (4 in) long. Thymus serpyllum, known by the common names of Breckland thyme, Breckland wild thyme, wild thyme, creeping thyme, or elfin thyme, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae, native to most of Europe and North Africa. Thymus subhirsutus Borbás & Heinr.Braun.The program aims at improving the level of publishing and editing practices, increasing the impact of scientific journals on science development, and extending the international range of scientific journals. RCN/SP/0520/2021/1 financed from the state budged – Ministry of Education and Science Republic of Poland in the framework of a program “Development of scientific journals”. In the years 2022-2024, the scientific quarterly Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences accomplishes a project no. W ramach projektu podejmowane są działania zmierzające do podniesienia poziomu praktyk wydawniczych i edytorskich, zwiększenia wpływu czasopism na rozwój nauki oraz utrzymania się czasopism w międzynarodowym obiegu naukowym. W latach 2022-2024 kwartalnik naukowy Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences realizuje projekt nr RCN/SP/0520/2021/1 finansowany ze środków budżetu państwa – Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki w ramach programu „Rozwój czasopism naukowych”. The content of phenolic acids ( p-coumaric and caffeic acids) decreased and that of flavonoid aglycons (luteolin and eriodictyol) increased after the γ-ray treatment. Only four constituents differed significantly (P<0.05) in terms of their content in the irradiated and non-irradiated samples. γ-Irradiation slightly affected the quantitative profile of phenolic compounds of a wild thyme ethanolic extract. Additionally, thymol was recognized in the analyzed extracts. Among them, caffeic acid derivatives and flavones predominated with the highest content of rosmarinic acid and luteolin-7- O-glucoside, respectively. Between thirty two detected constituents, twelve phenolic compounds classified as hydroxybenzoic and hydroxycinnamic acids derivatives, flavones and flavanones were identified. Ethanolic extracts of irradiated and non-irradiated herb were prepared and their compounds were analyzed by RP-HPLC-DAD technique. The presented study revealed that there were changes in the phenolic compounds profile of extract of wild thyme ( Thymus serpyllum L.) after γ-irradiation at the dose of 5 kGy.

Wild thyme extract