The Lamiaceae or Labiatae are a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint or deadnettle or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil, mentha, rosemary, sage, savory, marjoram, oregano, hyssop, thyme, lavender, and perilla, as well as other medicinal herbs such as catnip, salvia, bee balm, wild dagga, and oriental motherwort. Some species are shrubs, trees, or, rarely, vines. Many members of the family are widely cultivated, not only for their aromatic qualities, but also their ease of cultivation, since they are readily propagated by stem cuttings. Besides those grown for their edible leaves, some are grown for decorative foliage. Others are grown for seed, such as Salvia hispanica (chia), or for their edible tubers, such as Plectranthus edulis, Plectranthus esculentus, Plectranthus rotundifolius, and Stachys affinis. Many are also grown ornamentally, notably coleus, Plectranthus, and many Salvia species and hybrids.
Leonotis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. One species, Leonotis nepetifolia, is native to tropical Africa and southern India. It is naturalized throughout most of the tropics. The other species are endemic to southern + eastern Africa.
Volkameria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. It is pantropical in distribution. Many of the species are found in coastal habitats.
Clerodendrum is a genus of flowering plants formerly placed in the family Verbenaceae, but now considered to belong to the Lamiaceae (mint) family. Its common names include glorybower, bagflower and bleeding-heart. It is currently classified in the subfamily Ajugoideae, being one of several genera transferred from Verbenaceae to Lamiaceae in the 1990s, based on phylogenetic analysis of morphological and molecular data.
Holmskioldia is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Himalayas but widely cultivated as an ornamental and naturalized in many places It contains only one known species, Holmskioldia sanguinea, commonly called the Chinese hat plant, cup-and-saucer-plant or mandarin's hat.
Hyptis is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. These plants, known commonly as bushmints, are widespread in tropical North and South America, as well as parts of West Africa. There are 150 species, which may be annual or perennial herb to shrub. Recently, several genera were segregated from Hyptis.
Callicarpa longifolia is a species of beautyberry. It ranges from the Himalayas, east to Japan and south to Queensland. It is grown in yards and gardens as an ornamental plant. The roots are used as an herbal medicine to treat diarrheas.
Ajugoideae is subfamily of the family Lamiaceae. The subfamily name of Teucrioideae is a synonym of Ajugoideae.
Ocimum gratissimum, also known as clove basil, African basil, and in Hawaii as wild basil, is a species of Ocimum. It is native to Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia, and the Bismarck Archipelago, and naturalized in Polynesia, Hawaii, Mexico, Panama, West Indies, Brazil, and Bolivia.
Clerodendrum speciosissimum is a tropical shrub of the family Lamiaceae, native to Indonesia and Papuasia, but now naturalized in parts of Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, Seychelles, and Florida.
Teucrium cubense is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names small coastal germander and dwarf germander. It is native to a section of the Americas that includes the southwestern - south-central United States, parts of the Caribbean, Mexico, Costa Rica, and southern South America. In general, the plant has lobed leaves and a flower corolla with a broad lower lobe and smaller lateral lobes. The flower may be white or blue-tinged with purple speckles.
Mesosphaerum suaveolens, synonym Hyptis suaveolens, the pignut or chan, is a branching pseudocereal plant native to tropical regions of Mexico, Central, the West Indies, and South America, as well as being naturalized in tropical parts of Africa, Asia and Australia. It is generally 1–1.5 m (3.3–4.9 ft) tall, occasionally up to 3 m (9.8 ft). Stems are hairy, and square in cross section. Leaves are oppositely arranged, 2–10 cm (0.79–3.94 in) long, with shallowly toothed margins, and emit a strong minty odor if crushed. Flowers are pink or purple, arranged in clusters of 1–5 in the upper leaf axils.
Hyptis capitata, also known as false ironwort or knobweed, is a species of erect annual shrubs, of the plant family Lamiaceae. It is native to Florida, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America but naturalized in Australia, Southeast Asia, and some tropical islands. The plants grow up to a height of 1.5 meters. Crushed leaves are applied to cuts. It is considered a weed in many places.
Cornutia is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1753. It is native to tropical parts of the Western Hemisphere: southern Mexico, Central America, West Indies, northern South America.
- Cornutia australisMoldenke - Ecuador, Brazil
- Cornutia coerulea(Jacq.) Moldenke - Jamaica
- Cornutia jamaicensisMoldenke - Jamaica
- Cornutia obovataUrb. - Puerto Rico
- Cornutia odorata(Poepp.) Schauer - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- Cornutia pubescensC.F.Gaertn. - French Guiana
- Cornutia pyramidataL. - southern Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
- Cornutia thyrsoideaBanks ex Moldenke - Jamaica
Marsypianthes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1833. It is native to South America, Central America, the West Indies, and southern Mexico.
- Marsypianthes burchelliiEpling - Brazil
- Marsypianthes chamaedrys(Vahl) Kuntze. - from southern Mexico and the West Indies south to Argentina
- Marsypianthes foliolosaBenth. - Brazil
- Marsypianthes hassleriBriq. - Paraguay, southern Brazil, Misiones Province of Argentina
- Marsypianthes montanaBenth. - Brazil
Petitia, called the bastard stopper, is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described in 1760. It contains two known species, native to Florida and the West Indies.
Piloblephis is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1838. It contains only one known species, Piloblephis rigida, the wild pennyroyal, or pennyroyal native to Florida, southern Georgia, and the Bahamas.
Pseudocarpidium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae first described in 1906. It is native the West Indies.
- Pseudocarpidium avicennioides(A.Rich.) Millsp. - eastern Cuba
- Pseudocarpidium domingense(Urb. & Ekman) Moldenke - Hispaniola
- Pseudocarpidium ilicifolium (A.Rich.) Millsp. - Cuba
- Pseudocarpidium multidens(Urb.) Moldenke - eastern Cuba
- Pseudocarpidium neglectaBisse - Cuba
- Pseudocarpidium pungensBritton - eastern Cuba
- Pseudocarpidium rigens(Griseb.) Britton - eastern Cuba
- Pseudocarpidium shaferiBritton - eastern Cuba
- Pseudocarpidium wrightiiMillsp. - Bahamas, Cuba
Seutera is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1828. The name went unused until revived in 2006. It is native to Mexico, the West Indies, and the southeastern United States.
Anoplius americanus is a species of blue-black spider wasp which is widely distributed in the New World.
