Known under the popular name “Cimbrişor”, Thymus vulgaris is cultivated both as an aromatic vegetable plant and as a medicinal plant.

It is a plant originating from southern Europe, from where it spread throughout the globe.

Cimbrișorul is a perennial plant, which is presented in the form of an underbush.

In the first year of vegetation, the root is pivoting, 20 cm long, woody, branched, with the main mass developed in the fertile layer on the soil surface.

The stem is richly branched, with pubescent branches, lignified at the bottom, more or less ascendant.