Warnockia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Lamiaceae |
Subfamily: | Lamioideae |
Genus: | Warnockia M.W. Turner |
Species: | W. scutellarioides
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Binomial name | |
Warnockia scutellarioides (Engelm. & Gray) M.W. Turner
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Warnockia is a genus from the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1996. It contains only one known species, Warnockia scutellarioides, the prairie brazosmint, native to the south-central United States (Texas and Oklahoma) and northern Mexico (Coahuila).[1][2]
The genus name honors Barton Warnock, a 20th-century Texan botanist.
The specific epithet scutellarioides (suffixed with -oides) means "Scutellaria-like", referring to a resemblance to another genus in the Lamiaceae.[3]
It was also called the prairie brazoria, as it was formerly placed in the genus Brazoria.[3]