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Warnockia

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 and northern Mexico (Coahuila).

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Warnockia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Lamioideae
Genus: Warnockia
M.W. Turner
Species:
W. scutellarioides
Binomial name
Warnockia scutellarioides
(Engelm. & Gray) M.W. Turner
Synonyms1
  • Brazoria scutellarioides Engelm. & A.Gray
  • Brazoria roemeriana Scheele

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).12

Etymology

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

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