Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Scientific name
Polyfloral (flore sauvage spontanée)
Regions
  • Kroumirie (Ain Draham, Tabarka)
  • Mogods (Sejnane)
  • Nord-Ouest forestier
Harvest month
  • Mai
  • June
  • July
Mountain Honey / Wildflower

A complex wildflower honey from the great biodiversity of high-altitude meadows and forest areas.

عسل جبلي / متعدد الزهور

Color

Amber, varying from light to dark depending on the dominant blooms

Texture

Creamy or liquid

Crystallization

Speed

Medium

Type

Variable (often fine)

Taste Profile

Rich, complex, fruity or woody depending on the season, very aromatic

Harvest Season

Spring & Summer

Altitude

High altitude (forest areas and mountain meadows)

Main Benefits

  • General fortifier and restorative for the body
  • Helps relieve seasonal allergies (desensitizing effect of local pollen)
  • Antibacterial and overall antioxidant
  • Soothes coughs

Recommended Uses

  • Daily consumption at breakfast to boost the body
  • Ideal for healthily sweetening hot drinks and pastries
Rosemary
FebruaryMarsApril

Rosemary

Rosmarinus officinalis

  • Siliana
  • Le Kef
  • Kasserine
  • Zaghouan
  • Béja
  • Rosemary Honey
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Iconic aromatic plant of calcareous Mediterranean environments and garrigues.

Capitate Thyme
JuneJuly

Capitate Thyme

Thymus capitatus / Thymbra capitata

  • Kasserine (Jebel Chaambi)
  • Zaghouan
  • Siliana
  • Limestone heights of Bizerte
  • Thyme Honey
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Aromatic wild plant growing on sun-exposed arid, rocky limestone hills.

Wild Thistles
MaiJuneJuly

Wild Thistles

Carduus tenuiflorus / Galactites tomentosa

  • Béja
  • Bizerte
  • Siliana
  • Jendouba
  • North-East Plains
  • Thistle Honey
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Wild ruderal plants invading fallow lands and plains after cereal harvest.

White Horehound
MaiJune

White Horehound

Marrubium vulgare

  • Hautes steppes du Centre (Sidi Bouzid, Kasserine)
  • Le Kef
  • Siliana
  • Marjoram Honey
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Hardy and medicinal plant growing in degraded pastures, steppes, and forest edges.

Tree heath
MarsAprilOctoberNovemberDecember

Tree heath

Erica arborea / Erica multiflora

  • Mogods (Sejnane)
  • Kroumirie (Tabarka, Ain Draham)
  • Bizerte
  • Heather Honey
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Major component of the maquis in the humid and subhumid northern Tunisia.

Wild Lavender / Stoechas Lavender
AprilMaiJune

Wild Lavender / Stoechas Lavender

Lavandula stoechas

  • Mogods (Sejnane)
  • Kroumirie (Tabarka, Ain Draham)
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Wild plant of the acidic maquis of Northwestern Tunisia, with purple floral spikes topped with tufts.

Sticky fleabane
SeptemberOctoberNovember

Sticky fleabane

Dittrichia viscosa / Inula viscosa

  • North of Tunisia
  • Coastal plains
  • Sahel
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Invasive pioneer plant of wastelands, roadsides, and wetlands, essential for beekeeping overwintering.

Small-fruited Asphodel
JanuaryFebruaryMarsApril

Small-fruited Asphodel

Asphodelus microcarpus / Asphodelus ramosus

  • Northern Hills and Plains
  • Zaghouan
  • Siliana
  • Cap Bon
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

A robust spring wild plant that invades overgrazed land and arid hills.

Viper's Bugloss
AprilMaiJune

Viper's Bugloss

Echium vulgare / Echium pycnanthum

  • North of Tunisia
  • Medjerda Valley
  • Béja
  • Bizerte
  • Zaghouan
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

A biennial wild plant producing superb blue to purple flowers very rich in nectar.

Wild Mint / Pennyroyal Mint
JulyAugustSeptember

Wild Mint / Pennyroyal Mint

Mentha pulegium

  • North-West (Jendouba, Béja, Tabarka, Sejnane)
  • Wild Mint Honey
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Aromatic herbaceous plant that loves the humidity of wadi beds and marshy areas of the North.

Wild Mustard / Steppe Harra
FebruaryMarsApril

Wild Mustard / Steppe Harra

Diplotaxis harra / Diplotaxis simplex

  • Sidi Bouzid
  • Kairouan
  • Gafsa
  • Gabès
  • Sfax
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

A very common wild plant in arid and steppe areas, covering vast expanses with a yellow carpet.

Acacia / Blue Mimosa
MarsAprilMai

Acacia / Blue Mimosa

Acacia cyanophylla / Acacia saligna

  • Cap Bon
  • North-East
  • Tunisia's Coast
  • Siliana
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Introduced for dune fixation and reforestation, it produces abundant globular yellow flowers.

Spiny Broom
FebruaryMarsAprilMai

Spiny Broom

Calicotome villosa / Calicotome spinosa

  • North of Tunisia
  • Collines du Sahel
  • Cap Bon
  • Kef
  • Siliana
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Thorny wild shrub covering the Mediterranean hills, with bright yellow flowers.

Armed Astragalus / Steppe Astragalus
AprilMai

Armed Astragalus / Steppe Astragalus

Astragalus armatus

  • Kasserine
  • Sidi Bouzid
  • Siliana
  • Le Kef
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Thorny shrub forming large prickly cushions in steppes and arid mountains.

Borage
MarsAprilMai

Borage

Borago officinalis

  • North of Tunisia
  • Wetlands of Jendouba and Béja
  • Zaghouan
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Wild plant of wastelands and rubble, with star-shaped blue flowers rich in clear nectar.

Clover (White Clover, Red Clover)
AprilMaiJuneJuly

Clover (White Clover, Red Clover)

Trifolium repens / Trifolium pratense

  • Nord humide
  • Béja
  • Jendouba
  • Bizerte
  • Siliana
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

Very common in meadows, orchards, and fodder crops in the north.

Algerian Rosemary / Wild Rosemary of the Steppes
OctoberNovemberDecemberJanuary

Algerian Rosemary / Wild Rosemary of the Steppes

Rosmarinus algeriensis

  • Kasserine
  • Gafsa
  • Sidi Bouzid
  • Mountain Honey / Wildflower

A species of rosemary better adapted to the arid conditions of the high plateaus and desert edges.