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Definition of Leonurus
1. Noun. Genus of stout Old World herbs having flowers in whorls.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Labiatae, Family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, Mint Family
Member holonyms: Leonurus Cardiaca, Motherwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leonurus
Literary usage of Leonurus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1799)
"Upper Up of the corolla shaggy, concave. SPEC. CHAR. Stem-leaves lanceolate,
3-lobed. SYN. Leonurus Cardiaca. Linn. Sp. PI. 817. Huds. Fl. An. 261. With. ..."
2. Labiatarum Genera Et Species: Or, A Description of the Genera and Species of by George Bentham (1836)
"I do not find the " brilliant spots on the anthers," said to be characteristic
of Leonurus. The section Cardiaca comes very near to the section ..."
3. Flora Domestica: Or, The Portable Flower-garden : with Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent (1825)
"They are here mentioned rather to speak of their dangerous tendency than to
recommend their increase. MOTHERWORT. Leonurus. . ,'. ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Leonurus Cardiaca L. Sp. PI. 584. 1753. Perennial, puberulent ; stem rather stout,
strict, commonly branched, 2-5° tall, the branches straight and ascending ..."
5. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"Leonurus cardiaca L. Sp. PI. 584. 1753. A puberulent perennial 5-10 dm. high:
leaves long-petioled; the lower suborbicular, dentate, 5-10 cm. broad; ..."
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