mint family - the mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemaryasterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales Ballota, genus Ballota - perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound genus Coleus - genus of Old World tropical plants cultivated for their variegated leaves; various plants sometimes placed in genera Plectranthus or Solenostemon genus Phlomis - large genus of Old World aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs having often woolly leaves genus Plectranthus - large genus of ornamental flowering plants; includes some plants often placed in the genus Coleus genus Prunella, Prunella - small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers |