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

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
Rosmarinus officinalis
- Siliana
- Le Kef
- Kasserine
- Zaghouan
- Béja
- Rosemary Honey
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
Iconic aromatic plant of calcareous Mediterranean environments and garrigues.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Astragalus armatus
- Kasserine
- Sidi Bouzid
- Siliana
- Le Kef
- Mountain Honey / Wildflower
Thorny shrub forming large prickly cushions in steppes and arid mountains.
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)
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
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.
















