#lamiacea

[humunanunga]

'Tism won again! 🎉

Re:that post about invasive mints and the addition about outcompeting them with related plants, you can look up native lamiaceae species if you're still worried about replacing one invasive species with another! If you live in the USA, uswildflowers.com lets you search by state, and if you wanna narrow your search results even more, look up [plant family] native to your ecoregion!

There are different-level ecoregional maps for each state too--

--and some species only occur in the wild within unique subregions. For example, there's a Brazos mint, or rattlesnake flower, that only grows in sandy soil within the post oak belt in Texas, and the post oak savannahs only show up within the east central Texas plains on a level IV-inclusive map.

And I dunno about anyone else, but there's something special about meeting some of your more exclusive neighbors.

[faguscarolinensis]

Scutellaria montana / Largeflower Skullcap at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[francescointoppa]

V – Vitex agnus-castus L. – Agnocasto (Lamiaceae)

[alejaolch]

Poziewnik pstry - Edmonton hempnettle - Galeopsis speciosa Poland, August 2019

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Monardella villosa

This mint relative is found in California's Coast Ranges and in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Like many plants in the Mint Family, it has fragrant leaves, and its heads of lavender-purple flowers are popular with the bees. It is known by the common name of coyote mint.

-Brian

[wikipediapictures]

Prostanthera striatiflora

[botaniqueer]

Johnny’s Seed catalogue 2025:

Sunshine VX Max II: This iconic yellow corn and 2017 bestseller has been patched and updated so that it no longer causes nearby wandering cows to clip through the ground, getting eventually trapped in the mantle of the Earth. Also balance patches to improve resistance to mosaic viruses and crown rot.

Misc: Still working on patch for infinite mint exploit that replaces all local vegetation with Lamieaceae members due to glitch regarding plant aggression.

[syngoniums]

Purple part 3: Drummond's skullcap (Scutellaria drummondii), Texas sage (Salvia texana), and prairie brazoria (Warnockia scutellarioides)

[ursa-arctos-arctos]

Some Zygaenidae, wild Satureja sp. montana, an unknown flowering plant and a nice brook in the french alpes. Some of the nice impressions from the last hiking day on my trip there!

09/2023 Haute Alpes, France

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Wild Basil Clinopodium vulgare Lamiaceae

Photograph taken on June 20, 2023, at Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Woodview, Ontario, Canada.

[10-dutchies-12-bicycles]

Fave type of tree?

well if ure expecting an answer like "oh i like oak trees" then id say my fave species to encounter on a day by day basis would be Robinia pseudoacacia!! the leaves are SO SO soft!!!!! and i do love me a nice Bean Flower :3c

but if i take ur question literally then id say any tree that can perform C4 photosynthesis :333 theres literally only like 3 or so species in the WHOLE WORLD that can do that!!! like C4 photosynthesis is just THAT rare in trees!!! iirc theyre all in Hawaii

and theyre all Euphorbias of course heheh 😌😌 which is how i know of them

[glitchlight]

Lamiagirl drinking a mint tea: this just feels natural to me for some reason!

[faguscarolinensis]

Salvia nemorosa / Purple Wood Sage at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, CO

[francescointoppa]

Cimiciotta comune (Ballota nigra L., Lamiaceae)

[cosmogenous]

lavender, catnip, and eucalyptus are all mints

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Lepechinia hastata

Lepechinia is closely related to Salvia, and the plant pictured looks much like a Salvia, with its fuzzy squarish stems and its whorls of flowers. Lepechinia hastata comes from the Baja California peninsula, and it is sometimes called the Cape pitcher sage. It belongs to the Mint Family (Lamiaceae).

-Brian