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Ballota

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Noun1.Ballota - perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound
genus Ballota
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
family Labiatae, family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, mint family - a large family of aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including mint; thyme; sage; rosemary
Ballota nigra, black archangel, black horehound, fetid horehound, stinking horehound - ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
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Stachys coccinea Physotegia virginiana Phlomis italica Leonotis leonurus Ballota pseudodictamnus Lamium orvala Molucella laevis Prostanthera cuneata Any perennial salvia Most gardeners switch off when we talk about plant families, preferring just to grow rather than understand them.
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These fractions are in contrast to those of the calciotrophes in Brassicaceae with 49 to 66% of the total Ca in the water-soluble fraction, or with the oxalate plant, Ballota nigra (Lamiaceae), with 91% in the oxalate fraction (Kinzel, 1989).
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Both possess the fine white sand we all know and love, but at Playa Ballota, the next beach over, pebbles begin to creep into the mix.
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