Bunge: Inebriating mint; Intoxicating mint; Turkistan mint.
Name Lagochilus comes from the Greek lagos and cheilos, meaning hare and lip; inebrians meaning intoxicatin
Region: Samarkand and Bukhara provinces of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan an, Tajikistan.
Habitat: piedmont plains and low foothills, dried up streams and rubbly slopes, on scree and gravel; in dry grassy-sagebrush, grassland steppes.
Content: diterpene lagochiline, essential oils, tannins, organic acids, carotene, ascorbic acid, calcium, iron; essential oils with linalool, β-ionone, trans-chrysanthenyl acetate, α-terpineol; trans-chrysanthenyl acetate, eugenol, trans-verbenol, bicyclo[3.1.1]hept-3-en-2-one, pinocarvone; 2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)phenol; bicyclo[3.1.1]hept-2-en-4-ol; hexadecanoic acid; limonene, 2-hexenal.
Use: herb as recreational intoxicant.
BotanyShrub; 20 to 80 centimetres high.
Stem: numerous stems; woody at the base, simple or branched, leafy, lowered in the upper part, at the bottom - covered with a white shiny crust.
Leaves: opposite; broad; covered with scattered hairs and glands; broadly ovate, pubescent on both sides.
Inflorescence: in the axils of upper leaves.
Flowers: corolla is white or pale pink with brown veins; calyx is pubescent, wide-belled, with 5 petals; blooming from May to June.
Fruits: naked brown nuts.