Warnockia

Warnockia is a genus from the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1996. It contains only one known species, Warnockia scutellarioides, the prairie brazosmint, native to the south-central United States (Texas and Oklahoma) and northern Mexico (Coahuila).[1][2]

"Brazosmint" redirects here. For other uses, see Brazoria.

Warnockia
Scientific classification Edit this 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]
  • Brazoria scutellarioides Engelm. & A.Gray
  • Brazoria roemeriana Scheele

Etymology

The genus name honors Barton Warnock, a 20th-century Texan botanist.

The specific epithet scutellarioides (suffixed with -oides) means "Scutellaria-like", referring to a resemblance to another genus in the Lamiaceae.[3]

It was also called the prairie brazoria, as it was formerly placed in the genus Brazoria.[3]

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Biota of North America, 2013 county distribution map
  3. Amanda Neill, ed. (2005). A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers of Texas & the Southern Great Plains. TCU Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-87565-309-9. OCLC 1162417755.


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