Wild Thyme

"Serpyllum" is the old Latin name for wild thyme and comes from the Greek "herpillos", which means "to crawl". A common plant present everywhere, it grows in dry, arid places but also pastures, clearings, dunes, alluvium, from the plain to the high mountains. Its flowers, which appear from April, provide bees with abundant and fragrant nectar that can take on lemon or lemon balm odors. Strongly balsamic, wild thyme quickly attracted the attention of the Greeks who first made it a condiment. It has always held a place of choice in folk medicine.