Mints and Snapdragons

 

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I. Order Lamiales

 

Oleaceae - ash family

Fraxinus americana (white ash)
Fraxinus nigra (black ash)
Fraxinus pennsylvanica (red ash, green ash)
Syringa vulgaris (lilac)
Forsythia suspensa (forsythia, golden bells)

 

Lamiaceae or Labiatae - mint family

Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot)
Monarda punctata (horsemint)
Leonurus cardiaca (motherwort)
Lycopus virginicus (water horehound, bugleweed)
Prunella vulgaris (self heal)
Scuttelaria leonardii (skullcap)
Stachys hyssopifolia (hedge nettle)
Salvia splendens (sage) - cultivated

Verbenaceae - vervain family

Verbena hastata (blue vervain)
Verbena stricta (hoary vervain)
Phyla lanceolata (fogfruit)
Phryma leptostachya (lopseed) [sometimes as Phrymaceae]

 

Scrophulariaceae - figwort family

"Group A"

Scrophularia marilandica (eastern figwort, Carpenter's-square)
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)
Verbascum blattaria (moth mullein)

"Group B"

Antirrhimum majus (snapdragon) - cultivated
Besseya bullii (kittens' tails) [threatened]
Chelone glabra
(white turtlehead)
Linaria vulgaris (butter-and-eggs, toadflax)
Veronica catenata (water speedwell)
Veronica persica (bird'-eye speedwell)
Veronicastrum virginicum (culver's root)

"Group C" - hemiparasitic

Agalinis purpurea (purple gerardia) [= Gerardia purpurea ]
Aureolaria flava (smooth false foxglove)
Aureolaria pedicularia (clammy false foxglove)
Castilleja coccinea (Indian paintbrush, painted cup)
Castilleja sessiflora (downy paintbrush)
Meleampyrum lineare (cow-wheat)
Pedicularis canadensis (lousewort, wood betony)
Pedicularis lanceolata (swamp lousewort)

 

Plantaginaceae - plantain family [related to "Group B"]

Plantago patagonica (wooly plantain)

 

Orobanchaceae - broomrape family [related to "Group C"]

Orobanche fasciculata (clustered broomrape) [threatened]
Orobanche uniflora
(one-flowered broomrape)
Conopholis americana (squaw root)
Epifagus virginiana (beech drops)

 

Lentibulariaceae - bladderwort family

Utricularia cornuta (naked bladderwort)
Utricularia gibba (creeping bladderwort)
Pinguicula vulgaris (butterwort) [endangered]

 

Acanthaceae - ruellia family

Ruellia humilis (hairy ruellia) [endangered]


Bignoniaceae - trumpet-creeper family

Catalpa speciosa (catalpa) - escaped
Campsis radicans (trumpet creeper) - cultivated

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