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  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Nepetoideae
  8. Ocimeae

tribe

Ocimeae

Ocimeae

Includes
5 native 21 introduced 6 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Hyptidinae 3 native
  • Ociminae 1 native
  • Plectranthinae 1 native
  • Isodoninae
  • Lavandulinae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Top native Ocimeae All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Wild Sweet Basil Ocimum campechianum caterpillars 1 food 1 flowers 14
  • Desert Lavender Condea emoryi caterpillars 1 flowers 103
  • Little Spurflower Coleus australis caterpillars 1
  • Musky Mint Hyptis alata food 4 flowers 46
  • Black Sesame Cantinoa americana

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