''Pogogyne'' is a small genus of flowering plants in the

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known generally as mesamints or mesa mints. They are native to

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/ref> These are small annual plants with glandular, aromatic foliage. They are somewhat variable in appearance but are mostly minty-scented herbs with leaves and flower inflorescences bordered with stiff hairs. The flowers are white or a shade of purple or pinkish-lavender. The best known species is the critically endangered

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species San Diego mesa mint, ''P. abramsii'', which is now found only in a few isolated patches of ground near

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Pogogyne abramsii ''Pogogyne abramsii'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name San Diego mesa mint. Distribution It is endemic to San Diego County, California, where it is known only from a few sites at vernal pools in ...

'' Howell - San Diego mesa mint - San Diego County # ''

Pogogyne clareana ''Pogogyne clareana'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Santa Lucia mint. It is endemic to Monterey, California, where it is known only from about fifty occurrences all located within the bounds of F ...

'' J.T.Howell - Santa Lucia mesa mint - Monterey County # ''

Pogogyne douglasii ''Pogogyne douglasii'' is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names Douglas' mesamint and Douglas' beardstyle. The plant is endemic to central California, where it grows in vernal pools and similar grassland habit ...

'' Benth. - Douglas' mesa mint - Central + Northern California (Coast Ranges + Central Valley) # ''

Pogogyne floribunda ''Pogogyne floribunda'' is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names profuseflower mesamint and profuse-flowered pogogyne. It is native to the Modoc Plateau and surrounding basin habitat in the northeastern corner ...

'' Jokerst - profuseflower mesa mint - northern California, southern Oregon, southwestern Idaho # ''

Pogogyne nudiuscula ''Pogogyne nudiuscula'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Otay mesa mint. It is native to southern San Diego County, California, where it is known only from Otay Mesa near the border with Baja Calif ...

'' A.Gray - Otay mesa mint - San Diego County + northern Baja California # ''

Pogogyne serpylloides ''Pogogyne serpylloides'' is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names thymeleaf mesamint and thymeleaf beardstyle. It is endemic to central California, where it grows in grassy habitat in coastal and inland mounta ...

'' (Torr.) A.Gray - thymeleaf mesa mint - California + Baja California # ''

Pogogyne tenuiflora ''Pogogyne tenuiflora'' is an extinct species of annual plant in the mint family. Endemic to Guadalupe Island in the eastern Pacific, the Guadalupe mesa mint was only known from a single specimen collected by Edward Palmer in 1875. The species wa ...

'' A.Gray - Guadalupe mesa mint -

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Pogogyne zizyphoroides ''Pogogyne zizyphoroides'' is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names Sacramento mesamint and Sacramento beardstyle. It is native to central and northern California and southwestern Oregon. It grows in vernal po ...

'' Benth. - Sacramento mesa mint - northern + central California, southwestern Oregon

References

External links

Calflora: Database: ''Pogogyne''
— ''genus and species''. {{Authority control Lamiaceae genera Flora of California Flora of the Western United States