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.