| Scientific Name: | Origanum rotundifolium (incl. hybrids) |
| Common Name: | hop-like oregano, round-leaved oregano |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like, Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Bedding plant, Container planting, Ground cover, Herb, Perennial border, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Distinctive smell, Elliptic, Orbicular, Entire |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, White, Green-yellow, Purple, Pink, Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves opposite, broadly elliptic to orbicular, most 1-2cm long x 0.5-1.5cm wide, fussy-velvety pubescence, gray-green (silvery or lime green cvs.); flowers pink to purple in masses of hop-like greenish flower bracts that are larger than the leaves (especially in some hybrid cvs. such as O. 'Kent Beauty' with more vivid colours). | |