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Lamiaceae Martinov. Mint Family.

Key to Lamiaceae

A family of about 230-250 genera and 6700-7170 species, herbs, shrubs, vines, and trees, cosmopolitan.

subfamily Callicarpoideae: Callicarpa.
subfamily Viticoideae: Vitex.
subfamily Ajugoideae: Ajuga, Teucrium, Clerodendrum, Trichostema.
subfamily Scutellarioideae: Scutellaria.
subfamily Lamioideae:
tribe Synandreae: Synandra, Macbridea, Physostegia
tribe Stachydeae: Ballota, Galeopsis, Stachys, Sideritis
tribe Leonuridae: Leonurus, Chaiturus
tribe Marrubieae: Marrubium
tribe Lamieae: Lamium
subfamily Nepetoideae:
tribe Elsholtzieae: Collinsonia, Elsholtzia, Mosla, Perilla.
tribe Mentheae:
subtribe Salviinae: Rosmarinus, Salvia.
subtribe Menthinae: Blephilia, Clinopodium, Conradina, Cunila, Dicerandra, Hedeoma, Stachydeoma, Hyssopus, Lycopus, Mentha, Monarda, Origanum, Piloblephis, Prunella, Pycnanthemum, Thymus.
subtribe Nepetinae: Agastache, Dracocephalum, Glechoma, Meehania, Nepeta.
incertae sedis: Melissa.
tribe Ocimeae:
subtribe Hyptidinae: Hyptis, Cantinoa, Condea.
subtribe Ociminae: Ocimum.

Ref: Harley et al. In Kadereit (2004); Li et al. (2016a); Pastore et al. (2021); Zhao et al. (2021b). Show full citations.

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image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Pycnanthemum | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Scott Ward | Dicerandra | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Synandra hispidula CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Aidan Campos | Salvia source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Pycnanthemum | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Scutellaria | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Scutellaria | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Stachys | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Lycopus | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Salvia CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan Cressler: Macbridea alba, growing in the Conservation Garden, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia 1 by Alan Cressler | Macbridea alba source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Edwin Bridges | Collinsonia | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Mentha | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Leonurus | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan M. Cressler | Conradina | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Monarda punctata var. punctata CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Scott Ward | Clinopodium ashei | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Floyd A. Griffith | Trichostema setaceum | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Paul Marcum | Dracocephalum parviflorum source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Jacob Dakar | Callicarpa americana | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Bruce A. Sorrie | Cunila origanoides | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Agastache | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Ajuga reptans | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Aidan Campos | Hedeoma source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Vitex | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Melissa officinalis CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© sarahalder, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by sarahalder | Clerodendrum source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Mosla | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Perilla | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan M. Cressler | Piloblephis | Original Image ⭷

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