wild basil
clinopodium vulgare latin

"Wild basil" is a common name for several plants in the mint family (Lamiaceae):

It still displays some characteristic chalk species, including cowslip, marjoram, field scabious and wild basil.

Ocimum gratissimum, also known as African basil, or Wild basil in Hawaii, where it has naturalized.

Clinopodium vulgare (Wild Basil proper)

Clinopodium ascendens (Ascending Wild Basil)

Clinopodium gracile (Slender Wild Basil)

Pycnanthemum incanum - Hoary Mountainmint, "hoary basil", "wild basil"

Calamintha arkansana (Low Calamint, Limestone Wild Basil)

Ocimum gratissimum, also known as Clove Basil, African Basil, and in Hawaii as Wild Basil, is a species of Ocimum.

Pycnanthemum incanum (Hoary Mountainmint, "mountain mint", Wild Basil, Hoary Basil) is a herbaceous perennial in the mint family, native to North America.

It contained vegetables that had been cooked that morning: daylily buds, cut pieces of the green stems of poke, elder shoots, thistle stems, burdock stems, coiled baby ferns, and lily corms, flavored with wild basil, elderberry flowers, and pignut roots for added spice.

These were names for Clinopodium vulgare.

Clinopodium vulgare (N)