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Lepechinia Heteromorpha
''Lepechinia'' is a genus of plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It includes several species of plants known commonly as pitchersages (also pitcher sages). Plants of this genus can be found in Central and South America, Mexico, California, Hispaniola, and Hawaii, although the species in Hawaii is probably a human introduction. Many of them bear attractive pitcher-shaped flowers, often in shades of purple. The genus was named for the Russian botanist Ivan Ivanovich Lepechin. Recently, the two monotypic genera ''Chaunostoma'' and '' Neoeplingia'' were shown to be part of ''Lepechinia''.Drew, Bryan T. Sytsma, Kenneth J. 2011. Testing the Monophyly and Placement of ''Lepechinia'' in the Tribe Mentheae (Lamiaceae). Systematic Botany, 36: 1038-1049. ;Species # '' Lepechinia anomala'' Epling - southern Brazil # '' Lepechinia bella'' Epling - Bolivia # '' Lepechinia betonicaefolia'' (Lam.) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador # '' Lepechinia bullata (Kunth) Epling - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepechinia Calycina
''Lepechinia calycina'' is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name pitchersage or woodbalm. It is endemic to California, where it is a common plant in several different habitat types, including the chaparral plant community. Description ''Lepechinia calycina'' is an aromatic shrub with parts of its bark covered in long hairs, some of which have resin glands in them. The leaves are lance-shaped to roughly oval and are sometimes toothed along the edges. The shrub flowers in loose raceme inflorescences. Each flower is encased in a cuplike calyx of sepals which are green when new and age to reddish purple. The somewhat cylindrical corolla of the flower is white to light lavender and is rolled back at the tip into four small lips and one longer lip. The tiny fruit develops within the sepal cup after the flower falls. The fruit is rounded, dark in color, and slightly hairy. Uses The Miwok, a Native American group of California, used an extract of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |