Floating Thyme
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Floating Thyme
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
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Photograph - Photograph
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Floating Thyme.
The flowers of the wild thyme seem to hover in midair like little pink-purple clouds above the forest over-story.
Thymus serpyllum, known as Breckland thyme, Breckland wild thyme, wild thyme, creeping thyme,or elfin thyme, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. It is a low, usually prostrate subshrub growing to 1 inch tall with creeping stems up to 4 inches long. The oval evergreen leaves are 3–8 mm long. The strongly scented flowers are either lilac, pink-purple, magenta, or a rare white, all 4–6 mm long and produced in clusters. The hardy plant tolerates some pedestrian traffic and produces odors ranging from heavily herbal to lightly lemon, depending on the variety.
Wild thyme is a creeping dwarf evergreen shrub with woody stems and a taproot. It forms matlike plants that root from the nodes of the squarish, limp stems. The leaves are in opposite pairs, nearly stalkless, with linear elliptic round-tipped blades and untoothed margins. The plant sends up erect flowering shoots in summer. The usually pink or mauve flowers have a tube-like calyx and an irregular straight-tubed, hairy corolla. The upper petal is notched and the lower one is larger than the two lateral petals and has three flattened lobes which form a lip. Each flower has four projecting stamens and two fused carpels.
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July 1st, 2021
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