Clinopodium L.
Perennial herbs with erect to rather straggling stems. Lvs simple, usually toothed. Verticels in dense, many-flowered, terminal and axillary whorls. Bracts resembling foliage lvs; bracteoles subulate, prominent. Calyx tubular, curved, not gibbous at base, 13-nerved, 2-lipped. Corolla 2-lipped, hairy outside; upper lip emarginate; lower lip 3-lobed with the middle lobe largest; tube straight. Stamens included, convergent below upper lip. Style gynobasic, its branches unequal, the upper subulate, the lower longer and wider. Nutlets subglobose, smooth.
c. 10 spp., N. temperate regions. Naturalised sp. 1.
