{{Short description|Genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Illustration Leonurus cardiaca0.jpg |image_caption = ''Leonurus cardiaca''<ref>illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany</ref> |taxon = Leonurus |authority = L. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=wcsp/> |synonyms = * ''Cardiaca'' <small>Mill.</small> * ''Marrubiastrum'' <small>Ség.</small> }}
'''''Leonurus''''' ('''motherwort''') is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to Europe and Asia, naturalized in New Zealand, Hawaii, New Caledonia, and much of North and South America.<ref name=wcsp>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=109490 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=117993 Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 162 <big>益母草属</big> yi mu cao shu ''Leonurus'' Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 584. 1753. ]</ref><ref>[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/gen.php?genere=Leonurus Altervista Flora Italiana, Genere ''Leonurus''] includes photos + European distribution maps</ref><ref>[http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Leonurus Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps]</ref>
''Leonurus japonicus'' is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Species are sometimes confused with the related genus ''Leonotis.''
; Species<ref name=wcsp/> * ''Leonurus cardiaca'' <small>L.</small> - much of northern + central Europe east to Western Siberia + Iran * ''Leonurus chaituroides'' <small>C.Y.Wu & H.W.Li</small> - southeastern China (Anhui, Hubei, Hunan) * ''Leonurus deminutus'' <small>V.I.Krecz.</small> - Siberia, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia * ''Leonurus glaucescens'' <small>Bunge</small> - Turkey, Caucasus, Ukraine, European Russia, western Siberia (Altai and Western Siberia), Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Inner Mongolia * ''Leonurus incanus'' <small>V.I.Krecz. & Kuprian.</small> - Kazakhstan * ''Leonurus japonicus'' <small>Houtt.</small> - Japan, Korea, Amur, Primorye, much of China (incl Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang), Himalayas, Southeast Asia, Queensland; naturalized in North + South America, West Indies, Hawaii, Cape Verde, etc. * ''Leonurus kuprijanoviae'' <small>Krestovsk.</small> - Pakistan * ''Leonurus macranthus'' <small>Maxim.</small> - Japan, Primorye, Manchuria * ''Leonurus mongolicus'' <small>V.I.Krecz. & Kuprian.</small> - Mongolia, parts of Siberia (Tuva + Chita) * ''Leonurus nuristanicus'' <small>Murata</small> - Afghanistan * ''Leonurus oblongifolius'' <small>Popov</small> - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan * ''Leonurus persicus'' <small>Boiss.</small> - Turkey, Iran, Caucasus * ''Leonurus pseudomacranthus'' <small>Kitag.</small> - Japan, Amur, Primorye, eastern China * ''Leonurus pseudopanzerioides'' <small>Krestovsk.</small> - Mongolia, Xinjiang * ''Leonurus pubescens'' <small>Benth.</small> - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, western Himalayas * ''Leonurus quinquelobatus'' <small>Gilib.</small> - Turkey, Iran, Caucasus, Crimea; naturalized in Germany, Belgium, Irkutsk * ''Leonurus royleanus'' <small>Benth.</small> - western Himalayas * ''Leonurus sibiricus'' <small>L.</small> - Mongolia, Siberia (Altai, Chita), China (Hebei, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shanxi) * ''Leonurus tataricus'' <small>L.</small> - Siberia (Altai, Tuva, Western Siberia, Irkutsk) * ''Leonurus tibeticus'' <small>Krestovsk.</small> - Tibet * ''Leonurus turkestanicus'' <small>V.I.Krecz. & Kuprian.</small> - western Himalayas, Tibet, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran * ''Leonurus urticifolius'' <small>C.Y.Wu & H.W.Li</small> - Tibet * ''Leonurus villosissimus'' <small>C.Y.Wu & H.W.Li</small> - China (Hebei) * ''Leonurus wutaishanicus'' <small>C.Y.Wu & H.W.Li</small> - China (Shanxi)
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Category:Lamiaceae Category:Lamiaceae genera Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Lamiaceae-stub}}