Clinopodium dentatum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Clinopodium
- Species
- Clinopodium dentatum
- Scientific Name
- Clinopodium dentatum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Clinopodium dentatum
Clinopodium dentatum (syn. Calamintha dentata) is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names toothed savory and Florida calamint. It is native to Florida and Georgia in the United States.
This bushy shrub grows up to 30 to 70 centimeters tall. It is aromatic, with a mint scent. The stems have thin, peeling, gray-bron bark. The oppositely arranged yellow-green leaves are lance-shaped to oval and roughly one centimeter in length. They are hairy and glandular. The flower has a hairy, lipped corolla about 1.5 centimeters long not counting its tubular throat. It is lavender in color with a pale, dark-flecked spot on the lower lip. This is "perhaps the weediest species of the genus," and is sometimes the dominant shrub in the habitat, becoming locally common.
This plant occurs in sandy habitat such as sandhills and the Florida scrub. It is also able to colonize disturbed habitat such as roadsides. Most occurrences are in Florida, but it is also known from Tattnall County, Georgia.
This plant may be threatened by the conversion of its habitat to silviculture.
...Clinopodium dentatum in languages:
- English
- Florida Calamint
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Clinopodium acinos
- Clinopodium acutifolium
- Clinopodium album
- Clinopodium alpestre
- Clinopodium alpinum
- Clinopodium amissum
- Clinopodium argenteum
- Clinopodium arkansanum
- Clinopodium ashei
- Clinopodium atlanticum
- Clinopodium axillare
- Clinopodium bolivianum
- Clinopodium breviflorum
- Clinopodium brownei
- Clinopodium candidissimum
- Clinopodium capitellatum
- Clinopodium caricum
- Clinopodium carolinianum
- Clinopodium caucasicum
- Clinopodium cercocarpoides
- Clinopodium chandleri
- Clinopodium chilense
- Clinopodium chinense
- Clinopodium clivorum
- Clinopodium coccineum
- Clinopodium corsicum
- Clinopodium creticum
- Clinopodium darwinii
- Clinopodium dentatum
- Clinopodium douglasii
- Clinopodium fasciculatum
- Clinopodium ganderi
- Clinopodium gilliesii
- Clinopodium glabellum
- Clinopodium gracile
- Clinopodium grandiflorum
- Clinopodium graveolens
- Clinopodium griseum
- Clinopodium hakkaricum
- Clinopodium haraverianum
- Clinopodium hintoniorum
- Clinopodium hispidulum
- Clinopodium insulare
- Clinopodium jacquelinae
- Clinopodium jaliscanum
- Clinopodium kallaricum
- Clinopodium kilimandschari
- Clinopodium laxiflorum
- Clinopodium libanoticum
- Clinopodium ludens
- Clinopodium macranthum
- Clinopodium macrostemum
- Clinopodium maderense
- Clinopodium matthewsii
- Clinopodium megalanthum
- Clinopodium mexicanum
- Clinopodium micranthum
- Clinopodium micromerioides
- Clinopodium mimuloides
- Clinopodium molle
- Clinopodium multicaule
- Clinopodium multiflorum
- Clinopodium mutabile
- Clinopodium nanum
- Clinopodium nepeta
- Clinopodium nubigenum
- Clinopodium nummulariifolium
- Clinopodium odorum
- Clinopodium palmeri
- Clinopodium pamphylicum
- Clinopodium polycephalum
- Clinopodium pomelianum
- Clinopodium procumbens
- Clinopodium pulchellum
- Clinopodium rouyanum
- Clinopodium selerianum
- Clinopodium sericeum
- Clinopodium serpyllifolium
- Clinopodium simense
- Clinopodium speciosum
- Clinopodium suaveolens
- Clinopodium talladeganum
- Clinopodium tauricola
- Clinopodium taxifolium
- Clinopodium tomentosum
- Clinopodium uhligii
- Clinopodium umbrosum
- Clinopodium urticifolium
- Clinopodium vanum
- Clinopodium vimineum
- Clinopodium vulgare































































































































































