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Part II: Good Rock Garden Plants

by NARGS contributors

 Thymus serpyllum
[tye-mus ser-pill-um]

Downy gray-green leaves. Wide-spreading ground cover. Low evergreen with tiny aromatic leaves; pink or purple flowers in small terminal heads in late summer. The cultivar 'Coccineus' has bright red flowers. Europe, northern Africa. Zones 5-8.