Wild basil
Clinopodium vulgare L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 51 cm
- wide
- 51 cm
Lamiaceae
Formerly Acinos vulgaris, Calamintha clinopodium, Faucibarba clinopodium, Melissa clinopodium, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Medit., Europe to Siberia and W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 51 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Spread
- 51 cmRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Flowers
- Pink, purple, violetRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Asturian
- nébeda
- Czech
- klinopád obecný
- German
- Borstige Bergminze, Gewöhnlicher Wirbeldost
- Finnish
- lehtomäkiminttu
- French
- Calament clinopode, clinopode
- Dutch
- borstelkrans, Borstelkrans
- Slovenian
- navadna mačja zel
- Chinese
- 欧洲风轮菜
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Clinopodium vulgare (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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