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  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. ›Mint Family
  7. ›Nepetoideae
  8. ›Mentheae
  9. ›balms, mints, and thymes
mountain mints
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mountain mints

Pycnanthemum

Pycnanthemum is a genus of plants in the mint family (Lamiaceae). They are commonly known as mountain mints (or mountain-mints, mountainmints), though "the mountain mint" may also be any locally common species in particular. Some are known as koellias, after an obsolete genus name.

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8 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Capitellatae

sectionCapitellatae

Brachystemum

sectionBrachystemum

Pycnanthemum

sectionPycnanthemum

Aristatae

sectionAristatae

Appalachian mountainmint

speciesPycnanthemum montanum

Sierra Mint

speciesPycnanthemum californicum

Coastal Plain Mountainmint

speciesPycnanthemum nudum

Onehair Mountainmint

speciesPycnanthemum monotrichum

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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 72327.