Least basil
Ocimum campechianum Mill.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 51 cm
- wide
- —
Lamiaceae
Formerly Ocimum flexuosum, Ocimum guatemalense, Ocimum micranthum, Ocimum montanum, and 1 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
- Annual or subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 51 cmRead from Colombian Plant Catalogue (Flora of the Cayman Islands), one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Colombian Plant Catalogue (Flora of the Cayman Islands), read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- 3D model: Ocimum campechianum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.