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Thymes
Most rated Thymus records are fire-resistant — 5 of 8 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 8 records carrying 44 evidence rows from 24 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.
Rated as a group: Thyme Thymus spp. Fire-resistant Limited evidence 5 sources rate the genus as a
whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never
override a species record.
› Fire-resistant
4 species
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Creeping thyme Fire-resistant Thymus praecox -
Creeping thyme Fire-resistant Thymus serpyllum -
Creeping Thyme Fire-resistant Thymus serphyllum -
Lemon thyme Fire-resistant Thymus pulegioides
Keep away
1 species
Awaiting evidence
2 species
- Thymus munbyanus Awaiting evidence Thymus munbyanus
- Thymus mastichina Awaiting evidence Thymus mastichina
About thymes
Corpus context. Thymus is the directory's #87 largest of 550 genus groups: 8 records carrying 44 evidence rows from 24 cited sources, recorded as groundcover, shrub , hardy across USDA zones 5–9. Recorded trait flags: 1 carry high foliar moisture flags — each cited on its page. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.
More about Thymus: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.