Low growing plant that forms dense, slightly aromatic mats. Small pink-purple flowers on erect stems and with oval, untoothed leaves.

Thymus pulegioides

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Dry calcareous grasslands, rocks, heaths and mountainous areas.

Flowering time: May to September.

Perennial

Widespread and fairly frequent in suitable areas throughout most of Britain.

Occasional and local in Leicestershire and Rutland, usually on calcareous or sandy soil. In the Flora of Leicestershire (Primavesi and Evans 1988) it was found in 15 of the 617 tetrads.

It was on the 2011 VC55 Rare Plant Register (Jeeves, 2011) but does not meet the criteria for the current RPR (Hall and Woodward, 2022)