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Clinopodium acinos (basil thyme)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Acinos arvensis, known commonly as basil thyme and spring savory, is a species of plant of the genus Acinos. It is a perennial that usually grows about 8 inches high and spreads 12 inches. It prefers to grow in strong sunlight. The scent is faintly reminiscent of thyme, giving it its common name. Acinos arvensis is recorded as a food plant for the larva of the moth Coleophora tricolor. This plant is classified by Rose (The Wildflower Key, revised 2006) as Clinopodium acinos.
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Infraspecies

Calamintha acinos acinos

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual/Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [1]  The plant makes a good ground cover;
Height [1]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Width [1]  12 inches (0.3 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Very Dry
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Protected Areas

Predators

Chrysolina herbacea (mint leaf beatle)[4]
Coleophora tricolor (Basil-thyme case-bearer moth)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Neoerysiphe galeopsidis[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0