Lamiales

The Lamiales are an order of flowering plants, included among the asterid group of dicotyledons. The following families are typical of newer classifications:

• Family Lamiaceae (mint family)
• Family Verbenaceae[?] (verbena[?] family)
• Family Scrophulariacae[?] (figwort[?] family)
• Family Myoporaceae[?]
• Family Orobanchaceae[?] (broomrape[?] family)
• Family Acanthaceae (acanthus family)
• Family Pedaliacae[?] (pedalium[?] family)
• Family Bignoniaceae (trumpet creeper[?] family)
• Family Lentibulariaceae[?] (bladderwort[?] family)
• Family Plantaginaceae[?] (plantago family)
• Family Paulowniaceae[?]
• Family Martyniaceae[?]
• Family Byblidaceae[?]
• Family Phrymaceae[?]
• Family Schlegeliaceae[?]
• Family Stilbaceae[?]
• Family Tetrachondraceae[?]
• Family Carlemanniaceae[?]
• Family Gesneriaceae[?] (gesneria[?] family)
• Family Calceolariaceae[?] (slipper flowers[?])
• Family Tetrachondraceae[?]
• Family Oleaceae (olive family)
• Family Plocospermataceae[?]

Under the older Cronquist system of classification, the Lamiales included the families Lamiaceae, Verbenaceae[?], Boraginaceae, and Lennoaceae[?]. Many of the other families given above were placed in an order Scrophulariales.