ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Satureja hortensis CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: LAMIALES FAMILY: LAMIACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Satureja hortensis AUTHORITY: L. COMMON NAMES: SUMMER SAVORY SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: SAHO3 NATURAL COMMUNITIES: CULTURAL DEVELOPED LAND SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: NO NATURAL DIVISION: UNAVAILABLE COUNTIES: DUPAGE PEORIA GROWTH FORM: Dicot-herb TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Adventitious (fibrous) LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Opposite LEAF TYPE: Simple LEAF MARGIN: Entire LEAF SHAPE: Linear Oblanceolate INFLORESCENCE: Dischasium FLOWER MEROUS: 5 FLOWER STRUCTURE: Complete Irregular FLOWER COLOR: Violet White FLOWER PLACEMENT: Hypogynous FRUIT: Nut GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Introduced- Europe Asia POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Rare ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Forb LIFE CYCLE: Annual REPRODUCTION: Sexual FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 8 MONTH END- 10 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Species is distribued in waste places, roadsides. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: SHOWY FLOWERS: YES AMOUNT: Low LANDSCAPING: YES WILD HERBS: Culinary-flavor WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: No data entered REFERENCES: Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 494 pp. Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany. 8th ed. American Book Co., New York. 1632 pp. Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm. 1979. Plants of the Chicago region. Third ed. The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. 922 pp. Gleason, H. A. 1952. The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. 3 vols. The New York Botanical Garden, New York. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Satureja hortensis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015