68 University of Texas Bulletin 



LAMIACEAE (LABIATAE) Mint Family 



Brazoria scutellarioides Engelm. & Gray. 



Common in moist ground, ravines, valleys, bluffs and hillsides. 

 One of our most beautiful mints. Its dense, stiff spikes of pink 

 flowers are conspicuously 4-sided. 



Texas. 



Hedeoma acinoides Scheele. Mock Pennyroyal. 



Abundant in ravines, hillsides and uplands of the Edwards Plateau. 

 A small annual, with slender branches and delicate pink flowers : the 

 whole plant with a strong lemon odor. 



Arkansas and Texas. 



Hedeoma Drummondii Benth. Mock Pennyroyal. 



Similar in habit and habitat but less abundant than the preceding. 

 Lemon-scented. 



Texas. 



Lamium amplexicaule L. Dead Nettle. Henbit. 



Very common in lawns and along the roadsides in Austin. Abund- 

 ant on the campus. One of the first plants to b^oom in the spring. 



The flowers in our form are red-purple. 



Native of Europe and widespread in eastern North America. 



Leonotis nepetaefolia R. Br. 

 Valley of Onion Creek. 

 Southeastern states and the tropics. 



Marrubium vulgar e L. Hoarhound. 



Waste places everywhere. One of our most common weeds. Easi- 

 ly recognized by its white woolly stems and dull wrinkled leaves. 



Naturalized from Europe and widespread in eastern North 

 America. 



Mentha spicata L. Spearmint. 



Wet ground n^ar spring. Marshall Goat Ranch. 

 Eastern North America. 



Mentha sp. Peppermint. 



Wet ground along Onion Creek, and in wet places in ravines in 

 the Bull Creek region. 



Monarda dispersa Small. Horse-mint. 



Abundant in fields and roadsides. One of our most common mints. 

 A tall annual plant, very strong scented, and with large globular 

 clusters of flowers in the axils of the upper leaves. Seme of the 

 bracts are colored lavender, like the flowers. 



Southern plains states to Mexico. 



