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Scientific Name: | Satureja montana |
Common Name: | winter savory, mountain savory |
Family Name: | Lamiaceae |
Origin: | Africa, Europe |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
Plant Type: | Semi-evergreen |
Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
Habit: | Spreading |
Form: | Vase |
Texture: | Medium - fine |
Landscape Uses: | Herb, Perennial border |
Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Sessile, Pinnate venation, Distinctive smell, Linear, Oblanceolate, Ciliate |
Flowers: | Verticillaster, White, Violet, Pink, Jul-Aug-Sep |
Fruit: | Schizocarp, (Accessory tissue), Brown, Oct |
Key ID Features: | |
Leaves linear to oblanceolate, most about 2cm long x 5mm wide, pungent; flowers commonly white to light violet, about 10mm long x 6mm wide across the three larger lower petals. |