Mentheae is the largest tribe of plants in the family

Lamiaceae The Lamiaceae ( ) or Labiatae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint, deadnettle, or sage family. Many of the plants are aromatic in all parts and include widely used culinary herbs like basil (herb), ba ...

. It includes herbs such as sage, hyssop, mint, bee balm and thyme.

Genera

Subtribe Lycopinae

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Lycopus ''Lycopus'' is a genus of herbaceous plants in the family Lamiaceae. The many species are known as water horehound, gypsywort, and bugleweed and are native to Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. The species are most often found in wetlan ...

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Subtribe Menthinae

* '' Acanthomintha'' * '' Blephilia'' * '' Bystropogon'' * ''

Clinopodium ''Clinopodium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, in the subtribe Menthinae. ''Clinopodium'' belongs to a large and complex group of genera including many New World mints such as ''Hedeoma'', ''Monarda'', and ''Pycnanthemum ...

'' * '' Conradina'' * '' Cuminia'' * ''

Cunila ''Cunila'' is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1759. It is native to North and South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerabl ...

'' * '' Cyclotrichium'' * ''

Dicerandra ''Dicerandra'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family. ''Dicerandra'' comprises 11 species: six perennial and five annual species. The perennials have narrow ranges in Central Florida with small population sizes and only occur on anci ...

'' * '' Drymosiphon'' * ''

Eriothymus ''Eriothymus'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1835. It contains only one known species, ''Eriothymus rubiaceus''. It is endemic to the State of Minas Gerais in Brazil Brazil, officially ...

'' * '' Glechon'' * '' Gontscharovia'' * ''

Hedeoma ''Hedeoma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to North America, North and South America. They are commonly known as false pennyroyals. The genus name is derived from the Greek language, Greek words ἡδ ...

'' * '' Hesperozygis'' * ''

Hoehnea ''Hoehnea'' is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described with this name in 1939. It is native to South America, primarily southern Brazil and Paraguay. The genus name of ''Hoehnea'' is in honour of Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882 ...

'' * '' Killickia'' (treated as part of Micromeria by Harley et al. 2004) * '' Kurzamra'' * ''

Mentha ''Mentha'', also known as mint (from Greek , Linear B ''mi-ta''), is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is estimated that 13 to 24 species exist, but the exact distinction between species is unclear. Hybridization oc ...

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Micromeria ''Micromeria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, widespread across Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, with a center of diversity in the Mediterranean region and the Canary Islands. It is sometimes placed within ...

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Minthostachys ''Minthostachys'' is a genus of the mint family Lamiaceae, comprising aromatic scandent shrubs. It occurs along the Andes from Northern Venezuela through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to Central Argentina. Use and conservation The plants a ...

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Monarda ''Monarda'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.Harley, R. M., et al. 2004. "Labiatae". pp 167-275 In: Kubitzki, K. (editor) and J. W. Kadereit (volume editor). ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' volume VII. ...

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Monardella ''Monardella'' is a genus of approximately 40 species of annual and perennial plants native to western North America from British Columbia to northwestern Mexico. They are grown for their highly aromatic foliage, which in some species is used fo ...

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Obtegomeria ''Obtegomeria'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1998. It contains only one known species, ''Obtegomeria caerulescens'', endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia Colombia, ...

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Origanum ''Origanum'' ( ) is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants and subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. They are native to Europe, North Africa, and much of temperate Asia, where they are found in open or mountainous habitats. A few species ...

'' * '' Pentapleura'' * '' Piloblephis'' * ''

Pogogyne ''Pogogyne'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the Lamiaceae, mint family known generally as mesamints or mesa mints. They are native to Oregon, Idaho, California, and Baja California. These are small annual plants with glandular, aromatic ...

'' * '' Poliomintha'' * ''

Pycnanthemum ''Pycnanthemum'' is a genus of herbaceous plants in the mint family (Lamiaceae). Species in this genus are often referred to as "mountain mints" and they often have a minty or thyme-like aroma when crushed. All species of ''Pycnanthemum'' are ...

'' * '' Rhabdocaulon'' * ''

Rhododon ''Rhododon'', called sandmint, is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1939. It contains only one known species, ''Rhododon ciliatus'', the Texas sandmint endemic to the state of Texas in the United St ...

'' * '' Saccocalyx'' * ''

Satureja ''Satureja'' is a genus of aromatic plants of the family (biology), family Lamiaceae, related to rosemary and thyme. It is native to Southern Europe, southern and southeastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Historically, ...

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Stachydeoma ''Stachydeoma'', common name mock pennyroyal, is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1903. It contains only one known species, ''Stachydeoma graveolens'', endemic to the state of Florida in the United ...

'' * '' Thymbra'' * ''

Thymus The thymus (: thymuses or thymi) is a specialized primary lymphoid organ of the immune system. Within the thymus, T cells mature. T cells are critical to the adaptive immune system, where the body adapts to specific foreign invaders. The thymus ...

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Zataria ''Zataria'' is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1876. It contains only one known species, ''Zataria multiflora'', native to southwestern Asia (Iran, Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emi ...

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Ziziphora ''Ziziphora'' are a genus of annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. ''Ziziphora'' has aromatic leaves; they are found in open and often xeric habitats in Southern and Eastern Europe, North-West Africa and Asia to the Hima ...

Subtribe Nepetinae

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Agastache ''Agastache'' () is a genus of aromatic flowering herbaceous perennial plants in the family Lamiaceae. It contains 22 species, mainly native to North America, one species native to eastern Asia. The common names of the species are a variety of f ...

'' * '' Cedronella'' * ''

Dracocephalum ''Dracocephalum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. These flowers, collectively called dragonhead, are annual plant, annual or perennial plant, perennial herbaceous p ...

'' * '' Drepanocaryum'' * ''

Glechoma ''Glechoma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1753. It is distributed in northern Asia and Europe with a center of diversity in Asia, especially China. One species is naturalized ...

'' * '' Heterolamium'' * '' Hymenocrater'' * '' Hyssopus'' * '' Kudrjaschevia'' * ''

Lallemantia ''Lallemantia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. It is named after the German botanist Julius Léopold Eduard Avé-Lallemant. There are five species in the genus. They are native to central and southwestern Asia. They are ...

'' * '' Lophanthus'' * ''

Marmoritis ''Nepeta'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. The genus name, from Latin (“catnip”), is reportedly in reference to Nepete, an ancient Etruscan city.

'' * '' Meehania'' * ''

Nepeta ''Nepeta'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Lamiaceae. The genus name, from Latin (“catnip”), is reportedly in reference to Nepi, Nepete, an ancient Etruscan cities, Etruscan city.

'' * '' Schizonepeta''

Subtribe Prunellinae

* '' Cleonia'' * '' Horminum'' * '' Prunella''

Subtribe Salviinae

* '' Chaunostoma'' * '' Dorystaechas'' * ''

Lepechinia ''Lepechinia'' is a genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It includes several species of plants known commonly as pitchersages (also pitcher sages). Plants of this genus can be found in Central and South America, Mexico, California, Hisp ...

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Melissa Melissa is a feminine given name. The name comes from the Greek language, Greek word μέλισσα (''mélissa''), "bee", which in turn comes from μέλι (''meli''), "honey". In Hittite language, Hittite, ''melit'' signifies "honey". Meliss ...

'' * ''Meriandra'', syn. of ''

Salvia ''Salvia'' () is the largest genus of plants in the sage family Lamiaceae, with just under 1,000 species of shrubs, Herbaceous plant, herbaceous Perennial plant, perennials, and Annual plant, annuals. Within the Lamiaceae, ''Salvia'' is part o ...

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Incertae sedis or is a term used for a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...

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Acinos ''Clinopodium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Family (biology), family Lamiaceae, in the subtribe Menthinae. ''Clinopodium'' belongs to a large and complex group of genera including many New World mints such as ''Hedeoma'', ''Monarda'', a ...

'' (treated as part of ''Clinopodium'' by Harley et al. 2004)

References

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