Definition of Monardella lanceolata

1. Noun. Fragrant California annual herb having lanceolate leaves and clusters of rose-purple flowers.

Exact synonyms: Mustang Mint
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Monardella, Monardella

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monardella Lanceolata

Monakow's bundle
Monakow's nucleus
Monakow's syndrome
Monakow's tract
Monandrian
Monarchian
Monarchianism
Monarchians
Monarda citriodora
Monarda clinopodia
Monarda didyma
Monarda fistulosa
Monarda pectinata
Monarda punctata
Monardella
Monardella lanceolata (current term)
Monario
Monastir
Monckeberg
Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis
Monckeberg's calcification
Monckeberg's degeneration
Monckeberg's medial calcification
Monckeberg's sclerosis
Monday
Monday-morning
Monday-morning quarterback
Monday-morning quarterbacked
Monday-morning quarterbacking
Monday-morning quarterbacks

Literary usage of Monardella lanceolata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"... is the yerba buena so prized as a medicine by the Spanish Californians; Monardella lanceolata, Gray, or " pennyroyal," is a handsome-flowered mint, ..."

2. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1908)
"Monardella lanceolata Gray. Open uncultivated grounds. Mariposa and above. C. candicans Benth. Occasional in open spaces in the chaparral. Mariposa, etc. ..."

3. A Mission Record of the California Indians: From a Manuscript in the by Alfred Louis Kroeber, José Francisco de Paula Señán, Vicente Francisco Sarría (1910)
"The juice of the berries is used for inflamed eyes, and also formerly used for tattooing. Labiatae. Mint Family. Monardella lanceolata. ..."

4. University of California Publications in Botany by University of California, Berkeley (1903)
"Found growing on the south side at 5500 ft. alt. (No. 733.) Mentha viridis LM spicata L. Spearmint. Thomas Valley. (No. 770.) Monardella lanceolata Gray. ..."

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