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PLANT: Annual, biennial and perennial herbs or shrubs (rarely small trees), often variously pubescent, mostly aromatic; stems mostly 4 angled. LEAVES: opposite (rarely alternate or whorled), simple (rarely pinnately compound), mostly toothed to lobed, exstipulate. INFLORESCENCE: cymose, or less often racemose to paniculate, the cymes often congested as axillary verticils, these sometimes forming spikes or interrupted spikes, the internodes then clearly visible. FLOWERS: mostly perfect; sepals 5, connate, the calyx appearing 2 5 lobed or toothed, actinomorphic to zygomorphic, mostly persistent; petals 5, connate, the corolla (4 )5 lobed, mostly strongly zygomorphic, often bilabiate; stamens epipetalous, 2 (2 staminodes sometimes also present) or 4 (then of two lengths); pistil 1; carpels 2; ovary superior, sessile to stalked, deeply 4 lobed, each lobe with 1 ovule; style 1, the stigma usually 2 lobed. FRUIT: of 4 1 seeded nutlets. NOTES: Ca. 200 genera, ca. 3500 spp., cosmopolitan; frequented by many pollinators, especially bees. Volatile oils are produced by most species. Many are cultivated as culinary herbs, including Mentha (mints), Lavandula (lavender), Salvia (sage), Thymus (thyme), Ocimum (basil), Origanum (oregano), and Rosmarinus (rosemary). Others are cultivated for ornament (Solenostemon, Monarda, Salvia) and the alkaloids of a few have known psychoactive or medicinal properties. As traditionally defined, a group that is mostly easy to recognize, but considered polyphyletic by Cantino (1992) Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 79:361 379.
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Agastache breviflora
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Agastache mearnsii
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Agastache micrantha
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Agastache pallida
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Agastache pallidiflora
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Agastache rupestris
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Agastache wrightii
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Clinopodium vulgare
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Dracocephalum parviflorum
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Hedeoma costata
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Hedeoma dentata
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Hedeoma diffusa
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Hedeoma drummondii
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Hedeoma hyssopifolia
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Hedeoma nana
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Hedeoma oblongifolia
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Hyptis emoryi
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Isanthus brachiatus
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Lamium amplexicaule
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Leonotis nepetifolia
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Leonurus cardiaca
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Lycopus americanus
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Lycopus asper
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Marrubium vulgare
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Mentha arvensis
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Mentha pulegium
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Mentha spicata
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Mentha suaveolens
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Moluccella laevis
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Monarda citriodora
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Monarda fistulosa
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Monarda pectinata
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Monarda punctata
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Monardella arizonica
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Monardella eplingii
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Monardella glauca
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Monardella lanceolata
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Monardella linoides
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Monardella odoratissima
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Nepeta cataria
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Ocimum basilicum
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Poliomintha incana
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Prunella vulgaris
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Salazaria mexicana
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Salvia aethiopis
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Salvia amissa
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Salvia arizonica
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Salvia columbariae
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Salvia davidsonii
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Salvia dorrii
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