Origanum vulgare
Origanum vulgare
Ssp gracile: Kuş zemulu; Ssp hirtum: Kara mercan; Ssp viridulum: İstanbul kekiği; Ssp vulgare: Karakınık
Perennial herb, to 100 em, adpressed-pilose, hirsute, or ± glabrous and often pruinose. Branches to 12 pairs per stem, to 25 em, Leaves petiolate or subsessile , ovate, elliptic or roundish, 6-40 x 5-30 min, acute or obtuse, conspicuously glandular-punctate or not. Spicules 3-30 x 28 mm. Bracts obovate or elliptic, 2-10 x 1-7 mm, ± acute or acuminate. Calyx 2-4 mm. Corolla purple, pink or white, 3-10 mm. Fl. 5-10. Dry hills and rocky slopes, on calcareous and non-calcareous soils, often in partial shade of coniferous or mixed woods, macchie, s.l.-2500 m,
1. Leaves and calyx usually conspicuously glandular-punctate; stems and leaves densely hirsute, slightly puberulent or glabrescent; bracts ,usually green; corolla usually white
2. Stems usually densely hirsute; leaves densely glandular-punctate, not glaucous; leaves, bracts and calyx ± hirsute; inflorescence often compact; branches and spicules not slender . subsp. hirtum
2. Stems slightly puberulent or glabrescent; leaves glandular-punctate, ± glaucous; leaves, bracts and calyx glabrescent or slightly puberulent; inflorescence often lax; branches and spicules often slender subsp. gracile
1. Leaves and calyx not conspicuously glandular-punctate; stems adpressed-pilose; leaves pilose or glabrescent; bracts purple or green; corolla pink or white
3. Bracts partly purple, often glabrescent; corolla pink subsp, vulgare
3. Bracts green, rarely tinged purple, often puberulent; corolla white, rarely pinkish-white subsp. viride
