Feedback request: Thymus serpyllum (9981)

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Specimen #308445

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Thymus polytrichus A. Kern. ex Borb�s ("Wild Thyme")
Other name:	Lamiaceae: Thymus serpyllum L. ("Breckland Thyme")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Thymus serpyllum L. ("Breckland Thyme")
Collected by:	John Gilbert Baker
Collection date:	7/1853
Locality:	Great Britain, VC62 North-east Yorkshire, Thirsk, SE48
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by hallucigenia on 23^rd September 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
27/09/2010	hallucigenia	Deleted determination (orig): Thymus serpyllum
27/09/2010	hallucigenia	Deleted determination (orig): Thymus chamaedrys
27/09/2010	hallucigenia	Added determination (orig): Thymus serpyllum
27/09/2010	hallucigenia	Added determination (orig): Thymus polytrichus

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User comments about this sheet

hallucigenia wrote

Do not see how this could be Thymus serpyllum if confined to East Anglia! how about Thymus pulegioides seems to fit?

[David Price]

Thymus serpyllum is the name used in the 1850s for T. polytrichus which is the identity of this specimen.

[hallucigenia]

Many thanks for those.
C