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Gleason, H.A. & Cronquist, A. (1963) Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada D. van Nostrand Co, Inc. Princetown New Jersey.
Perennial herbs or small shrubs with square stems, aromatic. Leaves opposite, small. Flowers blue, purple or white, small, in axillary clusters often aggregated into a loose terminal spike-like inflorescence. Calyx 2-lipped, the tube densely villous in the throat, the lips equalling the tube and each other, lower lip bifid to the base, upper lip much wider, 3-lobed to the middle with triangular upturned lobes; corolla 2-lipped, the upper lipped usually flat, straight, broadly rounded, the lower lip spreading, slightly longer, 3-lobes sub-equal. Worldwide: About 350 species, native to temperate regions of Europe, North Africa and Asia. Zimbabwe: 3 cultivated taxa. |
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| pulegioides L. | |
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| vulgaris L. |
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