Veined Savory / زعتر ناعم / / شاي عراق معرق

زوفا / Nerved Savory / سيف / جسمي / أشنان داوود / الحشيشة المقدسة / شاي وعر / شاي أبو درج / إنفة

Micromeria nervosa (Desf.) Benth.

Flowers, April. This photo is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 4.0 License.

Edibility and Usage

Edibility
Edible
Edible part
  • Flowers
  • Leaves
Preparation
  • Herbal tea
Blooming period
February to May
Foraging period
December to April
Seed collection period
June to August
Potential medicinal uses
  • Anti-catarrhal
  • Anti-inflammatory
  • Aromatic
  • Carminative
  • Expectorant
  • Nervine
  • Vulnerary

Description

Perenniality
Perennial
Petal colour
  • Crimson
  • Pink
Leaf type
  • Entire
Life form
  • Chamaephyte

Scientifc data

Genus
Micromeria Benth.
Family
Lamiaceae
Wikidata item
Q15341835
GBIF Item
Micromeria nervosa (Desf.) Benth. (5606270)

References

  1. عراف، ش.،عمر،ر.،مخول، س.(1999).مساهمة في دراسة نباتات البلاد(الحلقة الثانية).ترشيحا:مركز الدراسات القروية.(عربي)
  2. Al-Qura’n, S. A. (2010). Ethnobotanical and ecological studies of wild edible plants in Jordan. Libyan Agriculture Research Center Journal International, 1(4), 231-243.
  3. Hamami, R.(2021).From Crown Anemone to Buchy Bean Caper.Ramallah:A.M. Qattan Foundation.(English and Arabic)
  4. Micromeria nervosa (Desf.) Benth. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-30.
  5. Oran, S. A., & Al-Eisawi, D. (2015). Ethnobotanical survey of the medicinal plants in the central mountains (North-South) in Jordan. Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences, 6(3), 381-400.
  6. Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
  7. Temple, Augusta A. Flowers & Trees of Palestine. Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1929.
  8. Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.

Citation

Micromeria nervosa (Desf.) Benth. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/798 accessed via barari.org on 2/19/2026.

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