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It's similar a bit to Summer savory, but definitely, it's not and it has a different shape, scent. It is grows crawling rather than standing up as Rosemary does. The leaves are rather small, Rosemary ones are twice as big. It is a thyme variaty? For sure it is not oregano. I've used plant identification at identify.plantnet.org but with no good results.

Not oregano

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New images with starting flowers

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Is it Thymus serpyllum (Breckland thyme) , Thymus praecox , Thymus pulegioides or Thymus longicaulis ?

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Fully in flower neighbouring oregano and rosemary on the right with busy bees : enter image description here

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It looks quite a lot like winter savoury, Satureja montana, to me. Have you tried tasting it (assuming you're willing to take the risk that it is edible)? Thyme and rosemary have quite distinct flavours. Winter savoury is peppery and slightly bitter.

EDIT: I've added a picture of a plant that was sold to me as 'winter savoury' by a good garden centre in the UK (but I don't have the Latin name from the garden centre). I think it looks a lot like your pictures. My plant tastes peppery, but I could also believe that it had some thyme flavour to it (but that would also fit with the description of Satureja montana).

However, I agree that the flowers here look more like other pictures online of Thymus pulegiodes - Satureja montana can have purple flowers but in other pictures online they appear to be distributed all the way up the stem (more akin to rosemary). So perhaps my plant was misdescribed by the garden centre, or perhaps the same common name is sometimes applied to both plants.

On the whole, I would tend to agree that it is Thymus pulegiodes.

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