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Ballota
Sign in to saveBallota (horehound) is a genus of flowering evergreen perennial plants and subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to temperate regions; the Mediterranean region has the highest diversity in the genus, with more isolated locations in South Africa, Central Asia, northern Europe, and the islands of the eastern North Atlantic. It is found in rocky and waste ground.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderLamiales
- FamilyLamiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 99
- With media
- 86
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Collections
- RSA, CAS, MEL, NY, UAM, MO
- Recorded in
- Tunisia, United States, Spain, Yugoslavia (Former), Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt
Research
123 papers- A Review of the Phytochemistry, Traditional Uses, and Biological Activities of the Genus Ballota and Otostegia.Planta medica · 2019
- A review on traditional uses, phytochemistry and pharmacological activities of the genus Ballota.Journal of ethnopharmacology · 2019
- Ballota acetabulosa (L.) Bentham: A First-Time GC-MS Analysis and Antioxidant Potential of its Essential Oil.Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening · 2025
- Radical quenching activity, ferric-reducing antioxidant power, and ferrous ion-chelating capacity of 16 Ballota species and their total phenol and flavonoid contents.Journal of medicinal food · 2010
- Ballota hirsuta essential oil as a potential multitarget agent against Leishmania parasite: in vitro and in silico studies.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2025
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Marrubieae
- Image
- Ballota nigra IP.jpg
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- genus
- taxon name
- Ballota
- Commons category
- Ballota
- topic's main category
- Category:Ballota
- taxon common name
- lahkotnica
- has fruit type
- nucule
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Ballota (horehound) is a genus of flowering evergreen perennial plants and subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to temperate regions; the Mediterranean region has the highest diversity in the genus, with more isolated locations in South Africa, Central Asia, northern Europe, and the islands of the eastern North Atlantic. It is found in rocky and waste ground.
Ballota is paraphyletic and will eventually be officially re-circumscribed. It is closely related to Moluccella and Marrubium. Some of its species had previously been placed in Marrubium. Other species have already been split to Pseudodictamnus
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