Monarda clinopodia Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 22. 1753.

"Habitat in Virginia." RCN: 178.

Lectotype (Reveal in Jarvis & al. in Taxon 50: 514. 2001): Herb. Linn. No. 40.4 (LINN) .

Current name: Monarda clinopodia L. ( Lamiaceae).

Note: Epling (in J. Bot. 67: 4. 1929), followed by McClintock & Epling (in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 20: 173. 1942), discussed the original elements for the name, and treated a sheet in LINN as the "standard specimen" (not the same as the type). Scora (in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 41: 41. 1967) also followed Epling but made no distinction as to which of the two sheets at LINN might be intended. As they come from different gatherings, Art. 9.15 does not, in any case, apply. One of the sheets in LINN (40.4 and 40.7 are both annotated by Linnaeus) has been chosen as lectotype by Reveal.