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Definition of Lesser calamint
1. Noun. Low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to Great Britain; naturalized in United States.
Generic synonyms: Calamint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lesser Calamint
Literary usage of Lesser calamint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild flowers by Anne Pratt (1853)
"Another species, called the lesser calamint (Calamintha Nepeta), is very common
on chalky soils. It has the same kind of odour, resembling that of Penny ..."
2. Contributions Towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork by J. R. Harvey, Thomas C. Power, John D. Humphreys (1845)
"lesser calamint. About Glandore on dry banks: Mr. RW Townsend. It has not been
hitherto recorded as belonging to Ireland. ..."
3. The British Flora Medica: A History of the Medicinal Plants of Great Britain by Benjamin Herbert Barton, Thomas Castle (1877)
"The lesser calamint (Calamintha Nepeta), which is by some considered a variety
or sub-species of C. officinalis, is said to be equal, if not superior to it, ..."
4. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1814)
"S. of Europe. 1573 vi-i. Roman. great-flower'd. Curt. mag. t. 208. Italy.
1596 common Calamint.Engl. bot. t. 1676. England. lesser Calamint. t. 1414. ..."
5. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William MacGillivray (1830)
"lesser calamint. Flowers in whorls, on branched stalks, Flower-stalks subdivided :
flowers pale purple : mouth of the calyx with conspicuous white hairs. ..."
6. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1843)
"lesser calamint. Three-forked Calamint. Field Calamint. SPEC. CHAR. Whorls on
forked, many-flowered stalks, longer than the adjoining leaf. Leaves serrated. ..."
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