It could be Hyssopus officinalis

In my opinion it belongs to Micromeria

Dear Andre

Your photograph is not very prominant enough to identify but apparently I think it is Micromeria critata of the family Lamiaceae

with regards

Sunit Mitra

Is this plant growing wild in your area or did you find it in a garden?

Thank You Dears for your answers, 

In the begining i though it was Hyssopus officinalis, however we have some doubts that this plant is micromeria juliana, im not sure about it till now...this is a plant growing wild in our region. i think that the better way to identify it is to extract the DNA  and to do a PCR using specific primers. Thank you again, i really appreciate you collaborations.

Hi! If you suspect it could be Micromeria juliana, please pay attention also to Micromeria myrtifolia (M. juliana var. myrtifolia), which by World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=127317 ) is recorded for LBS (Lebanon/Syria). For identification, the following paper might be helpful: Arabaci et al. 2010, Morphological character analysis in Turkish Micromeria Benth. (Lamiaceae) species with a numerical taxonomic study. Turk. J. Bot. 34: 379-389. - http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-10-34-5/bot-34-5-3-0905-22.pdf

I have seen M. juliana several times in Greece and Italy and this was also my first thought. However, I don't know, which other similar species exist in Lebanon.

The leaves of your plant are rather broad. So, this would rather be Micromeria myrtifolia than M. juliana. Anyway, extracting DNA would not be very helpful for identification as long as reference sequences are missing for M. myrtifolia. I have checked GenBank and could not find any entry for M. myrtifolia. So, you have the chance to be the first one, but a correct identification of your plants by phenetic characters should be safeguarded.

Dear M. Starlinger,

Thank you very much for your answer, i found it very useful and a big thanks for the paper you've sent me in attach.

We have identified the plant and indeed it was the micromeria you are talking about.

Tnak you again and wish you  a great day.

Sincerely yours

Andre