Family: Lamiaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Lamiales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Lamiaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Herbs or shrubs.
Main axis: Stem often 4-angled.
Leaves: Leaves simple, opposite, or whorled.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence axillary or terminal, a spike, raceme, or panicle.
Flowers: Flowers unisexual, zygomorphic; calyx tubular, usually 5-lobed or 2-lipped; corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip weakly 2-lobed to entire, the lower lip usually 3-lobed; stamens 4, usually didynamous, sometimes reduced to 2, adnate to the corolla; staminodia 2 when present; ovary superior, borne on a disk, carpels 2, deeply 4-lobed, the style usually gynobasic and bifid at apex.
Fruit: Fruit a schizocarp with 1-4 nutlets when mature.
Seeds: Seeds 1-4 per fruit breaking apart as nutlets.
Other
Notes: Plants often aromatic. In some texts still referred to as Labiatae.