| Warnockia | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Lamioideae |
| Genus: | Warnockia M.W. Turner |
| Species: | W. scutellarioides |
| Binomial name | |
| Warnockia scutellarioides (Engelm. & Gray) M.W. Turner | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Warnockia is a genus from the familyLamiaceae, first described in 1996. It contains only one known species,Warnockia scutellarioides, theprairie brazosmint, native to the south-centralUnited States (Texas andOklahoma) and northernMexico (Coahuila).[1][2]
The genus name honorsBarton Warnock, a 20th-century Texan botanist.
Thespecific epithetscutellarioides (suffixed with-oides) means "Scutellaria-like", referring to a resemblance to another genus in the Lamiaceae.[3]
It was also called theprairie brazoria, as it was formerly placed in the genusBrazoria.[3]
