Leucas lavandulifoliaSm.

leucas

WFO wfo-0000227040 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Leucas lavandulifolia, photographed by Margaret Burger
fig. a Margaret Burger, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-04-24 / obs. 122900673
Leucas lavandulifolia, photographed by Mahomed Desai
fig. b Mahomed Desai, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106212892
Leucas lavandulifolia, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141621388
Leucas lavandulifolia, photographed by S.MORE
fig. d S.MORE, CC0 1.0 / obs. 145378229
Leucas lavandulifolia, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. e Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 160422438
Leucas lavandulifolia, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175217971
Leucas lavandulifolia, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. g Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195902979
Leucas lavandulifolia, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. h Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 175587189

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Leucas lavandulifolia is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand China South-CentralChina SoutheastAssamBangladeshBorneoEast HimalayaIndiaJawaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailand Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Leucas lavandulifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 44 in flower of 47 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Leucas lavandulifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 44 of 47 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Hetrepta lavandulifolia (Sm.) Raf.
  • Leonurus indicus L.
  • Leonurus malebaricus J.Koenig ex Rottb.
  • Leucas brownii Briq.
  • Leucas indica (L.) Vatke
  • Leucas indica var. decipiens (Hook.f.) Bennet
  • Leucas lavandulifolia var. decipiens (Hook.f.) Chandrab. & S.R.Sriniv.
  • Leucas linifolia (Roth) Spreng.
  • Leucas linifolia var. decipiens Hook.f.
  • Leucas malabarica W.Theob.
  • Phlomis linifolia Roth

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol LELA8. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.