“…The wild marjoram plant grows in the northern (Chalus, Gilan, and Gorgan), western (Azerbaijan, Ardabil, and Kurdistan) and eastern regions (Ahar and Bojnoord) in Iran. Studies have shown many antifungal, antibacterial, and antioxidant activities for essential oils of different species of genus marjoram due to the presence of compounds such as thymol and carvacrol (Muller et al 1989;Gouladis et al 2003).…”