Index / Search / Thymus pulegioides
§1 Plant
Thymus pulegioides L.
vernacular lemon thyme — species · Lamiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Lamiaceae Martinov
- Genus
- Thymus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 100 counties across 7 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 100 counties across 7 states/territories.
Maine view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Schoharie 36095
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Union 42119
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/THPU5 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5341443 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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