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

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]

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. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Biota of North America, 2013 county distribution map
  3. ^ a b 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.