Acinos arvensis (Lam.) Dandy - Lamiaceae - syn. Clinopodium acinos; basil thyme, spring savory, **Feld-Steinquendel**, Gemeiner Steinquendel

Annual or perennial herb, 10-40cm high, native to Europe and West Asia, introduced to North Africa and North America; leaves short-stalked, ovate to lanceolate, 1-2cm long; flowers in clusters of three in the upper leaf angles; corolla violet, at most 1cm long.

"The scent is faintly reminiscent of thyme, giving it its common name." [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinos_arvensis|wikipedia EN]] \\
"The parts of the plant smell pleasantly aromatic of mint." [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feld-Steinquendel|wikipedia DE]]

Major compounds of the essential oil were germacrene-D  (14.3%), hexadecanoic acid (14.0%), β-bourbonene (7.0%), caryophyllene oxide (3.2%) and abietatriene (3.0%). There are many olfactory interesting minor components like e.g. eucalyptol (1.2%), nonanal (0.1%), decanal (0.1%), bornyl acetate (0.1%), pulegone (0.2%), borneol (0.2%), trans-verbenol (0.5%), carvone (0.3%), (E,E)-2,4-decadienal (0.1%), β-damascenone (0.04%), and β-ionone (0.2%). \\ 
"Previously A.arvensis oil from Canada was reported as rich in germacrene-D (51.4%), caryophyllene  (7.9%), β-bourbonene  (4.8%), and cadinene(3.0%), and a sample of oil from Greece was reported to contain pulegone (51.3%), isomenthone (18.1%), alloocimene (6.9%) and menthone (4.2%)." \\
[Kaya, Ayla, et al. "The essential oil of Acinos suaveolens (Sm.) G. Don fil. Acinos arvensis (Lam.) Dandy and Acinos rotundifolius Pers. growing wild in Turkey." Flavour and fragrance journal 14.1 (1999): 60-64] 
[[https://web.archive.org/web/20250331060805/http://dspace.balikesir.edu.tr/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.12462/9859/Kaya_et_al-1999-Flavour_and_Fragrance_Journal.pdf|(PDF)]] 


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