Common Name: MINT FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub [tree, vine], glabrous to hairy, generally aromatic. Stem: generally erect, generally 4-angled. Leaf: generally simple to deeply lobed, generally opposite, generally gland-dotted. Inflorescence: generally cymes, generally many in dense axillary clusters surrounding stem, generally separated by evident internodes or collectively crowded, spike- or panicle-like, occasionally head-like or raceme, subtended by leaves or bracts; flowers sessile or pedicelled. Flower: generally bisexual; calyx generally 5-lobed, radial to bilateral; corolla generally bilateral, 1--2-lipped, upper lip entire or 2-lobed, +- flat to hood-like, occasionally 0, lower lip generally 3-lobed; stamens generally 4, epipetalous, generally exserted, paired, pairs generally unequal, occasionally 2, staminodes 2 or 0; ovary superior, generally 4-lobed to base chambers 2, ovules 2 per chamber, style 1, generally arising from center at junction of lobes, stigmas generally 2. Fruit: generally 4 nutlets, generally ovoid to oblong, smooth. Genera In Family: +- 230 genera, 7200 species: worldwide. Many cultivated for herbs, oils (Lavandula, lavender; Mentha, mint; Rosmarinus, rosemary; Thymus, thyme), some cultivated as ornamental (in California Cedronella, Leonotis, Monarda, Phlomis). Note:Moluccella laevis L., shell flower, historical waif in California. Satureja calamintha (L.) Scheele subsp. ascendens (Jordan) Briq. reported as alien but not naturalized. Salazaria moved to Scutellaria; California Hyptis moved to Condea, California Satureja moved to Clinopodium. eFlora Treatment Author: Dieter H. Wilken & Margriet Wetherwax, family description, key to genera, except as noted Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Habit: Annual to shrub, +- gland-dotted, scented. Leaf: entire to serrate, margin flat or wavy; petioles 0 or present, often grading into blade. Inflorescence: flowers in compact clusters of >= 1 per main stem, these occasionally arrayed in panicles (rarely spikes); flowers 3--100 per cluster; bracts generally erect in a cup-like involucre or reflexed, reduced in size inward, leaf-like to membranous in texture, green or straw-colored to rose or purple, linear to ovate, acuminate to acute or obtuse. Flower: calyx 5-lobed; 4--25 mm; corolla white to purple or yellow to red, weakly bilateral, upper lip erect, 2-lobed, lower lip recurved, 3-lobed; stamens 4; style unequally 2-lobed. Etymology: (Latin: small Monarda) Note: Complex; study needed; many taxa intergrade; flower cluster width and bract orientation given for pressed specimens. Leaf length including petiole, if present. M. Brunell authored Monardella follettii (in part), Monardella odoratissima (in part), Monardella palmeri, Monardella purpurea, Monardella sheltonii (in part), Monardella stebbinsii, Monardella villosa (in part). eFlora Treatment Author: Andrew C. Sanders, Mark A. Elvin & Mark S. Brunell Reference: Elvin & Sanders 2009 Novon 19:315--343; Epling 1925 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 12:1--106; Jepson 1943 Fl California 431--444 Unabridged Reference: Abrams 1951 Ill Fl Pac Sts V III:648--660
Habit: Annual, erect, branched. Stem: 9--65 cm, short gray-hairy (puberulent) or glandular-hairy. Leaf: petioled, 15--60 mm, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, hairs short. Inflorescence: flower cluster 5--30 mm wide; bracts 5--15 mm, narrowly to widely ovate, acute to acuminate, occasionally stiff-pointed, short-hairy, green to scarious between veins, veins converging at tip, cross-veins present or 0. Flower: calyx 5--7.5 mm, 12--16-veined, +- glabrous to scabrous externally, except generally with cluster of spreading hairs at base of sinus, densely +- appressed-hairy on inside of lobes; corolla 12--15 mm, rose to purple, hairy, tube exserted, tips of upper lobes with prominent gland; stamens exserted.
Monardella breweri A. Gray subsp. lanceolata (A. Gray) A.C. Sanders & Elvin
NATIVE Stem: 9--65 cm, purple, glandular- or short-hairy distally. Leaf: 15--60 mm, 4--12 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate. Inflorescence: flower cluster 5--25(30) mm wide; bracts 10--15 mm, 8--10 mm wide, acute, cross-veined, outer green or purple-tipped, inner weakly scarious. Flower: calyx generally 6.5--7.5 mm, 13--14-veined; corolla 12--15 mm, purple; stamens exserted. Ecology: Open, rocky, occasionally disturbed sites; grassy openings in chaparral, oak woodland, conifer forest; Elevation: < 3400 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, CaRF, s CaRH, SN, s SCoRO, SW; Distribution Outside California: Nevada, northern Baja California. Flowering Time: May--Oct Note: Intergrades extensively with Monardella breweri subsp. breweri in TR and southern SCoRO and with subsp. microcephala in southern PR. Synonyms: Monardella lanceolata A. Gray; Monardella lanceolata var. sanguinea (Greene) Jeps. Jepson eFlora Author: Andrew C. Sanders, Mark A. Elvin & Mark S. Brunell Reference: Elvin & Sanders 2009 Novon 19:315--343; Epling 1925 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 12:1--106; Jepson 1943 Fl California 431--444 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Monardella breweri subsp. glandulifera Next taxon: Monardella breweri subsp. microcephala
Citation for this treatment: Andrew C. Sanders, Mark A. Elvin & Mark S. Brunell 2012, Monardella breweri subsp. lanceolata, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=91097, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.
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