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Lamiales
The lilac-pink flowers of the water mint attract butterflies and beetles.
The order Lamiales, commonly known as the mint order, includes 24 families of flowering plants.1
These families encompass approximately 1,059 genera and 23,755 species. Notable families within this order include:1
- Lamiaceae
- Verbenaceae
- Plantaginaceae
- Scrophulariaceae
- Orobanchaceae
- Acanthaceae
- Gesneriaceae
- Bignoniaceae
- Oleaceae
- Pedaliaceae
- Lentibulariaceae
- Byblidaceae1
The order is classified within the lamiids group of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group IV (APG IV) system.1