Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 570 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 249 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (1870), Flora Australiensis 5: 73 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. & Brown, A. (7 June 1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British possessions Edn. 2, 3: 113 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Nepeta cataria L.

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 741 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Latin nepeta, name of some herb resembling mint."

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 548 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 927 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 136 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Lamiaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 636 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Lamiaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 430 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA (doubtfully naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (doubtfully naturalised), Vic (doubtfully naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Harley, R.M., Atkins, S., Budantsev, A.L., Cantino, P.D., Conn, B.J., Grayer, R., Harley, M.M., de Kok, R., Krestovskaja, T., Morales, R., Paton, A.J., Ryding, O. & Upson, T. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2004), Labiatae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 7: 250 [secondary reference]

State Herbarium of South Australia (2008), Fact sheets. The Electronic Flora of South Australia: - [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 581 [secondary reference]

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