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Lamiaceae

not marked as a favorite taxon Lamiaceae Martinov. Common name: 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.

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References: 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 #1 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Pycnanthemum | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Lamiaceae© Scott Ward | Dicerandra | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Lamiaceae© Richard & Teresa Ware | Synandra hispidula CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Lamiaceae© Aidan Campos | Salvia source | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Pycnanthemum | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Scutellaria | Original Image ⭷
image #7 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Scutellaria | Original Image ⭷
image #9 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Stachys | Original Image ⭷
image #10 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Lycopus | Original Image ⭷
image #11 of Lamiaceae© Richard & Teresa Ware | Salvia CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #12 of Lamiaceae© 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 #13 of Lamiaceae© Edwin Bridges | Collinsonia | Original Image ⭷
image #17 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Mentha | Original Image ⭷
image #18 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Leonurus | Original Image ⭷
image #20 of Lamiaceae© Alan M. Cressler | Conradina | Original Image ⭷
image #21 of Lamiaceae© Richard & Teresa Ware | Monarda punctata var. punctata CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #22 of Lamiaceae© Scott Ward | Clinopodium ashei
image #24 of Lamiaceae© Floyd A. Griffith | Trichostema setaceum | Original Image ⭷
image #26 of Lamiaceae© Paul Marcum | Dracocephalum parviflorum source | Original Image ⭷
image #27 of Lamiaceae© Jacob Dakar | Callicarpa americana | Original Image ⭷
image #30 of Lamiaceae© Bruce A. Sorrie | Cunila origanoides | Original Image ⭷
image #31 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Agastache | Original Image ⭷
image #34 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Ajuga reptans | Original Image ⭷
image #35 of Lamiaceae© Aidan Campos | Hedeoma source
image #36 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Vitex | Original Image ⭷
image #40 of Lamiaceae© Richard & Teresa Ware | Melissa officinalis CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #41 of Lamiaceae© sarahalder, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by sarahalder | Clerodendrum source | Original Image ⭷
image #46 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Mosla
image #47 of Lamiaceae© Gary P. Fleming | Perilla | Original Image ⭷
image #48 of Lamiaceae© Alan M. Cressler | Piloblephis | Original Image ⭷

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