Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
Lamiales
The Lamiales are an order in the asterid group of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It includes about 23,810 species, 1,059 genera, and is divided into about 24 families. Well-known or economically important members of this order include lavender, lilac, olive, jasmine, the ash tree, teak, snapdragon, sesame, psyllium, garden sage, and a number of table herbs such as mint, basil, and rosemary.
24 branches of this order, most-observed first
Mint Family
familyLamiaceae
Plantain Family
familyPlantaginaceae
broomrape family
familyOrobanchaceae
olive family
familyOleaceae
Verbena Family
familyVerbenaceae
figwort family
familyScrophulariaceae
Acanthus Family
familyAcanthaceae
bignonia family
familyBignoniaceae
lopseed family
familyPhrymaceae
gesneriads
familyGesneriaceae
bladderwort family
familyLentibulariaceae
foxglove tree family
familyPaulowniaceae
lindernia family
familyLinderniaceae
mazus family
familyMazaceae
slipper-flower family
familyCalceolariaceae
Unicorn Plant Family
familyMartyniaceae
stilbe family
familyStilbaceae
pedalium family
familyPedaliaceae
tetrachondra family
familyTetrachondraceae
schlegelia family
familySchlegeliaceae
rainbow plants
familyByblidaceae
plocosperma family
familyPlocospermataceae
carlemannia family
familyCarlemanniaceae
thomandersia family
familyThomandersiaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48151.