Family: dead-nettles (Lamiaceae)
Flowering period: July–September
Size: 10–30 cm
Habitat: karst meadows, pastures, gravel and rocky crevices
Dwarf savory (Satureja subspicata) is at its base a sprawling dwarf subshrub. Its shoots are distinctly four-angled and completely bare. They are leafy with narrow, distinctly pointed leaves with a straight margin. At the tops of the shoots, the flowers are grouped into dense inflorescences. The two-lipped corollas of the dwarf savory are pale violet, decorated with a pattern of darker spots at the mouth of the corolla tube. The calyx is 5–11 mm long and ten-toothed.
Dwarf savory grows on barren dry soils, usually in sunny places, in the southwestern and southern parts of Slovenia.
The leaves of the dwarf savory are usable as a spice, its flowers still in autumn attract bees, and the substances contained in the plant relieve pains and digestive ailments and inflammations and act antiseptically.
