Trichostema
Encyclopedia
Trichostema is a genus
of flowering plants in the Lamiaceae
family, which has aromatic herbs or subshrub
s. These plants are native to North America
. In addition, any plant of this genus which has whorls of small blue flowers is called Blue curls.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plants in the Lamiaceae
Lamiaceae
The mints, taxonomically known as Lamiaceae or Labiatae, are a family of flowering plants. They have traditionally been considered closely related to Verbenaceae, but in the 1990s, phylogenetic studies suggested that many genera classified in Verbenaceae belong instead in Lamiaceae...
family, which has aromatic herbs or subshrub
Subshrub
A subshrub or dwarf shrub is a short woody plant. Prostrate shrub is a similar term.It is distinguished from a shrub by its ground-hugging stems and lower height, with overwintering perennial woody growth typically less than 10–20 cm tall, or by being only weakly woody and/or persisting...
s. These plants are native to North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
. In addition, any plant of this genus which has whorls of small blue flowers is called Blue curls.
Species
- Trichostema arizonicum
- Trichostema austromontanumTrichostema austromontanumTrichostema austromontanum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name San Jacinto bluecurls. It is native to California from the mountains east of the Sierra Nevada to the Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges, its distribution extending south into Baja...
- Trichostema brachiatum
- Trichostema dichotomumTrichostema dichotomumTrichostema dichotomum is a plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. Trichostema dichotomum is an annual herbaceous forb with opposite, simple leaves, and square, erect, hairy stems. The flowers are blue, borne in late summer....
- Trichostemma hispida
- Trichostema lanatumTrichostema lanatumTrichostema lanatum is a small evergreen shrub or sub-shrub native to arid coastal chaparral regions of California and the northern parts of Baja California....
- Trichostema lanceolatumTrichostema lanceolatumThe annual herb of the mint family Trichostema lanceolatum is commonly known as vinegar weed because its foliage contains volatile oils that have a strong vinegar odor. Other common names for the plant include terpentine weed and camphor weed...
- Trichostema laxumTrichostema laxumTrichostema laxum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name turpentine weed. It is native to northern California and Oregon, where it grows in coastal and inland mountains and foothills, sometimes on serpentine soils. It is an annual herb approaching half a meter...
- Trichostema lineare
- Trichostema linearifolium
- Trichostema mexicanum
- Trichostema micranthumTrichostema micranthumTrichostema micranthum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name smallflower bluecurls. It is native to Arizona and Baja California, with populations also occurring in the San Bernardino Mountains of California. Its habitat includes meadows and riverbanks...
- Trichostema oblongumTrichostema oblongumTrichostema oblongum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name oblong bluecurls. It is native to the northwestern United States from northern California to Idaho to Washington, its distribution extending north into British Columbia. Its habitat includes meadows and...
- Trichostema ovatumTrichostema ovatumTrichostema ovatum is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name San Joaquin bluecurls.-Distribution:...
- Trichostema parishiiTrichostema parishiiTrichostema parishii is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Parish's bluecurls. It is native to the Transverse Ranges and Peninsular Ranges of southern California, its distribution extending south into Baja California. Its habitat includes chaparral and coastal...
- Trichostema pilosum
- Trichostema purpusii
- Trichostema rubisepalumTrichostema rubisepalumTrichostema rubisepalum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Hernandez bluecurls. It is endemic to California, where it has a disjunct distribution, occurring in three main locations...
- Trichostema ruygtiiTrichostema ruygtiiTrichostema ruygtii is a species of flowering plant in the mint family which was first described to science in 2006. It is endemic to California, where it is known from Napa and Solano Counties. Its habitat includes forest, woodland, chaparral, and vernal pool habitat on grasslands.-External...
- Trichostema sandersoni
- Trichostema setaceum
- Trichostema simulatumTrichostema simulatumTrichostema simulatum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Siskiyou bluecurls. It is native to Oregon and northern California as far south as the northern half of the Sierra Nevada. It grows in open areas in forest, woodland, and other habitat...
- Trichostema spiralis
- Trichostema suffrutescens