Family: Lamiaceae Wild Basil Clinopodium vulgare Flowering July to September. Rhizomatous perennial. Native Found on dry calcareous soils among scrub and rough grassland and on roadsides and hedgebanks A slightly hairy, faintly aromatic plant with dense whorls of purplish-pink flowers with a darker calyx. Usually unbranched with short-stalked, slightly toothed leaves Similar: Common Calamint has spikes of pale pink flowers

Wild Basil, Clinopodium vulgare
Badbury Rings, Dorset. August 2012