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Ballota
Ballota (horehound) is a genus of flowering evergreen perennial plants and subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. native to temperate regions. The Mediterranean region has the highest diversity in the genus, with more isolated locations in South Africa, Central Asia, northern Europe, and the islands of the eastern North Atlantic. It is found in rocky and waste ground.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Black horehound
speciesBallota nigra
Ballota saxatilis
speciesBallota saxatilis
Ballota philistaea
speciesBallota philistaea
Ballota glandulosissima
speciesBallota glandulosissima
Ballota grisea
speciesBallota grisea
Ballota larendana
speciesBallota larendana
Ballota kaiseri
speciesBallota kaiseri
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 old herbals & bestiaries
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.169
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.281
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.203
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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 56159.