| Scientific Name: | Origanum majorana |
| Common Name: | sweet marjoram |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as) |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Fragrance, Hanging basket, Herb, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Distinctive smell, Elliptic, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, White, Pink, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems 4-sided; leaves perfume scented like pine and citrus, opposite, ovate-elliptic, medium gray-green, and pubescent, most 5-21mm long x 2-11mm wide; florets up to 3mm wide, white to pink | |