Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Melissa officinalis L.


LAMIACEAE Family selection - Mint family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Melissa officinalis L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 592 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Common balm
en English name: balm
English name: bee balm
Spanish name: toronjil
French name: mélisse officinale
Italian name: Erba limona
German name: Zitronenmelisse

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Melissa
Species:


Page counter: 1757 ( AVG: 218.81 / 217.747 )



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Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Marinella Zepigi

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Marinella Zepigi

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, località Ronco, orto, BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Habit at Kula Ace Hardware and Nursery, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Leaves at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
In pot at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Habit at Walmart Kahului, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Leaves at Makawao, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Brunello Pierini

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Marinella Zepigi

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Jose Hernandez - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Jose Hernandez - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Franco Rossi

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Credit: Photo by Brunello Pierini

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AR, CA, CT, DC, DE, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MT, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, VA, VT, WA, WV), CAN (BC, MB, ON, QC)

Distributional map for Melissa officinalis L.
Map for Melissa officinalis L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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