Thyme-leaved Savory / زعتر رومي / / زعتر بيض

زعتر حمير / ندغ البساتين / نَدْغ سَعْتَري / النمّام / نَمّام الملك / زعتمان / ندغ زعتري / زعتر الحمار

Satureja thymbra L.

Seed, July. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility

Delicious

Edible part

Leaves

Preparation

Cooked with eggs
Herbal tea
Pickled
Za'tar mix

Blooming period

March to May

Foraging period

January to March

Seed collection period

June to September

Potential medicinal uses

Analgesic
Expectorant
Tonic
Vulnerary

Description

Perenniality

Perennial

Petal colour

Crimson
Pink

Leaf type

Entire

Life form

Chamaephyte

Scientifc data

Genus

Satureja

Family

Lamiaceae

Wikidata item

Q12248164

GBIF Item

Satureja thymbra L. (3902859)

Conservation status (IUCN)

Least concern

References

Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
Tesdell, Imseeh, O., Othman, A., Othman, Y., Dowani, Y., Shqeirat, R., Bamieh, Y., Tesdell, E., Khouri, S. (2018). Palestinian Wild food plants. Ramallah: Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center (English and Arabic).
Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
Crowfoot, Grace Mary Hood. From Cedar to Hyssop; a Study in the Folklore of Plants in Palestine. London, Sheldon Press; New York and Toronto, The Macmillan Co., 1932.
Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.
Hadas, Rivka, and Alexandra Sirota. “An Overview of the Goals and Functions of the Israeli Gene Bank for Agricultural Crops.” Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 54, no. 3 (January 1, 2006): 149–56.

Citation

Satureja thymbra L. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/626 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.