| Scientific Name: | Origanum vulgare |
| Common Name: | oregano |
| Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Filler, Fragrance, Ground cover, Group or mass planting, Hanging basket, Herb, Perennial border, Small garden/space |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Glandular hairs, Distinctive smell, Ovate, Ciliate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Verticillaster, White, Purple, Pink, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Tufted, strongly scented plan with 4-sided stems becoming woody at base; leaves opposite, broadly ovate, most 1.5-3cm long x 1-2cm wide, pubescent with glandular hairs, margin ciliate and entire (rarely serrate), petiole 2-7mm long; flowers 2-lipped, white to pink, ~3mm wide x 5-9mm long, densely arranged in corymb-like clusters of verticillasters. | |