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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Lamioideae |
| Genus: | Warnockia M.W. Turner |
| Species: | W. scutellarioides
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| Warnockia scutellarioides (Engelm. & Gray) M.W. Turner
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Etymology
editThe 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
edit- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Biota of North America, 2013 county distribution map
- ^ 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.
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