Dracocephalum parviflorum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Lamiales
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Dracocephalum
- Species
- Dracocephalum parviflorum
- Scientific Name
- Dracocephalum parviflorum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dracocephalum parviflorum
Dracocephalum parviflorum, known as dragonhead mint or American dragonhead, is a wild North American mint growing across much of the United States (especially in the Great Lakes region and in the deserts and mountains of the West), as well as much of Canada and Alaska. It grows as either an annual or biennial, producing clusters of small pink to violet flowers in whorls at the ends of many branching stems. The seeds are small (about 2 mm), dark, and high in oil content, about 20%.
A 2006 study suggests that this mint may have application as a commercial birdseed crop in Alaska.
...Dracocephalum parviflorum in languages:
- Bokmål
- toppdragehode
- English
- American dragonhead
- Finnish
- amerikanampiaisyrtti
- French
- dracocéphale parviflore
- Japanese
- コバナムシャリンドウ
- Swedish
- amerikansk drakblomma
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dracocephalum aucheri
- Dracocephalum austriacum
- Dracocephalum bipinnatum
- Dracocephalum botryoides
- Dracocephalum charkeviczii
- Dracocephalum discolor
- Dracocephalum diversifolium
- Dracocephalum foetidum
- Dracocephalum fragile
- Dracocephalum fruticulosum
- Dracocephalum ghahremanii
- Dracocephalum grandiflorum
- Dracocephalum heterophyllum
- Dracocephalum imberbe
- Dracocephalum integrifolium
- Dracocephalum junatovii
- Dracocephalum komarovii
- Dracocephalum krylovii
- Dracocephalum microflorum
- Dracocephalum moldavica
- Dracocephalum multicaule
- Dracocephalum multicolor
- Dracocephalum nodulosum
- Dracocephalum nutans
- Dracocephalum oblongifolium
- Dracocephalum olchonense
- Dracocephalum origanoides
- Dracocephalum palmatum
- Dracocephalum parviflorum
- Dracocephalum paulsenii
- Dracocephalum peregrinum
- Dracocephalum pinnatum
- Dracocephalum renati
- Dracocephalum rupestre
- Dracocephalum ruyschiana
- Dracocephalum stamineum
- Dracocephalum stellerianum
- Dracocephalum thymiflorum
- Dracocephalum wallichii
- Dracocephalum wendelboi