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Ajuga
Ajuga, commonly known as bugleweed or carpet bugle, is a genus of about 69 species of flowering plants in the mint family, native across Eurasia and known for the ground cover Ajuga reptans.
Ajuga reptans
Ajuga reptans (bugle, bugleweed, carpet bugleweed), Lamiaceae perennial herb native to Europe to N. Iran and NW Africa, spread by stolons; shade ground cover, invasive-risk listed in Florida, studied for hepatoprotective and hemostatic extracts.
Ballota
Ballota (horehound) is a Lamiaceae genus of about 30 perennial herbs and shrubs native to Macaronesia, Europe, the Mediterranean, and West Asia; type species Ballota nigra, black horehound; split from Pseudodictamnus in 2018.
Betonica
Betonica (betony) is a genus of 10 perennial Lamiaceae species native to Europe, Central Asia, Iran, and NW Africa, including Betonica officinalis; molecular, cytological, and phytochemical evidence supports separating it from Stachys in tribe Betoniceae.
Callicarpa
Callicarpa (beautyberry) is a Lamiaceae genus of about 140-170 shrub and small tree species, type species C. americana, native from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific, and Australia, with showy purple drupes and mosquito-repellent leaf compounds.
Caryopteris × clandonensis
Caryopteris × clandonensis (bluebeard, blue mist shrub) is a hybrid shrub from Clandon, Surrey, bred by Arthur Simmonds around 1930 from C. incana and C. mongholica, grown for late-summer blue flowers that attract pollinators.
Catnip
Catnip (Nepeta cataria), a mint-family perennial herb, contains nepetalactone, which makes about 68% of domestic cats euphorically rub and roll and repels mosquitoes comparably to DEET.
Chia seed
Chia seed, the edible seed of Salvia hispanica, a Mesoamerican mint-family crop rich in omega-3 ALA, fiber, and calcium; mucilage-forming functional food with mixed clinical-trial evidence for cardiometabolic benefits.
Clerodendrum
Clerodendrum (glorybower, bagflower, bleeding-heart) is a Lamiaceae genus of about 250 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas of the Old World tropics, with tubular flowers and accrescent fruiting calyces.
Coleus
Coleus is a genus of about 320 species of aromatic herbs and shrubs in the mint family, native to the Old World tropics and Australia.
Coleus amboinicus
Coleus amboinicus (syn. Plectranthus amboinicus), Indian borage, is an aromatic Lamiaceae perennial herb native to Africa, Arabia, and India, used as a culinary and medicinal plant with phenolic, terpenoid, and flavonoid phytochemistry.
Dracocephalum
Dracocephalum (dragonhead) is a Lamiaceae genus of about 70 aromatic herb species of the temperate Northern Hemisphere; Hyssopus and Lallemantia are embedded within it, and D. moldavica is its most-studied medicinal species.
Galeopsis
Galeopsis L. (hemp-nettle) is a genus of about 10 annual herbs in the mint family (Lamiaceae), native to temperate Eurasia, placed in tribe Galeopsideae, with frequent hybridization and traditional medicinal uses.
Glechoma
Glechoma (Lamiaceae) is a genus of stoloniferous perennial herbs native to temperate Eurasia, with four to eight species including ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea), a tetraploid (2n=36) lawn weed introduced to North America.
Glechoma hederacea
Glechoma hederacea, ground ivy or creeping Charlie, is a creeping perennial mint native to Europe and Siberia, introduced to North America by 1672, toxic to horses, and a hard-to-control lawn weed.
Gmelina arborea
Gmelina arborea (gamhar, yemane, white teak), Lamiaceae tree native Pakistan to southern China and Indo-China; fast-growing tropical plantation timber comparable to spruce, also pulp, fuel, and Ayurvedic medicine; IUCN Least Concern.
Hyssopus officinalis
Hyssopus officinalis (hyssop), Mediterranean mint-family herb with blue-violet flowers; culinary flavoring and Chartreuse ingredient; pinocamphone-containing essential oil is convulsant; one asthma trial.
Isodon
Isodon (Benth.) Schrad. ex Spach, formerly Rabdosia, is a Lamiaceae genus of about 116-150 perennial herb species native to the tropical and subtropical Old World, rich in ent-kaurane diterpenoids such as oridonin used in Chinese and Japanese medicine.
Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae (Labiatae), the mint family, is a cosmopolitan Lamiales family of about 236 genera and over 7,000 species, sixth largest among angiosperms, with opposite leaves, four-stamened zygomorphic flowers, and major culinary and aromatic uses.
Lamium
Lamium (dead-nettles) is a genus of annual or perennial herbs in the mint family, Lamiaceae, native to temperate Eurasia, Macaronesia to Ethiopia. About 32 accepted species; nettle-like leaves that do not sting; two-lipped flowers; includes L. album, L. purpureum, L. galeobdolon.
Lamium galeobdolon
Lamium galeobdolon (yellow archangel; syn. Lamiastrum galeobdolon, Galeobdolon luteum) is a stoloniferous perennial mint native to Europe to W. Siberia and Iran, with yellow hooded flowers, used as ground cover; its variegated subspecies argentatum is invasive.
Lamium purpureum
Lamium purpureum, purple or red dead-nettle, is a mint-family winter annual weed native from Macaronesia and Europe to West Siberia, introduced in North America and Japan; square stems, purple-tinged petioled upper leaves, and pinkish-purple flowers distinguish it from henbit.
Lavandula
Lavandula (lavenders), a genus of about 41 aromatic Lamiaceae species native from Macaronesia to India, cultivated for essential oil rich in linalool and linalyl acetate; key species are L. angustifolia and the hybrid lavandin L. × intermedia.
Lavandula angustifolia
Lavandula angustifolia (English lavender, true lavender, synonym L. officinalis) is a Lamiaceae subshrub native to NE Spain to Italy, grown for linalool- and linalyl acetate-rich essential oil and hardiness.
Lavandula x intermedia
Lavandula x intermedia (lavandin, Dutch or bastard lavender) is a sterile hybrid of true lavender and spike lavender, native to SE France and NE Spain, the most cultivated lavender, yielding about 120 kg oil/ha with camphor notes.
Lemon balm
Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis, sweet balm, toronjil) is a lemon-scented Lamiaceae perennial herb native from the Mediterranean to Central Asia, grown as a culinary and medicinal herb; rich in rosmarinic acid and citronellal, studied for anxiety and sleep.
Leonurus
Leonurus (motherwort), Lamiaceae genus of about 25 temperate Eurasian herb species; source of alkaloids leonurine and stachydrine, used as uterotonic in East Asia and sedative in Europe.
Lycopus europaeus
Lycopus europaeus, gypsywort or European bugleweed, is a perennial Lamiaceae wetland herb native from the Azores and NW. Africa to Siberia and the W. Himalaya, introduced in North America and New Zealand, IUCN Least Concern, rich in rosmarinic acid.
Marjoram
Marjoram (Origanum majorana, sweet marjoram) is a Lamiaceae culinary herb from Cyprus and southern Turkey, milder and sweeter than oregano, with terpinen-4-ol/sabinene hydrate essential oil studied as a natural pesticide.
Marrubium
Marrubium (horehounds) is a Lamiaceae herb genus, type species M. vulgare, white horehound; 40-53 species native from Macaronesia and Europe to Central Asia and the Himalaya; source of the diterpene marrubiin.