Condea verticillata

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| image = Condea verticillata herbarium specimen K000735430.jpg

| image_caption = Epitype of Condea verticillata

| status = G5

| status_system = TNC

| status_ref = {{cite web |title=NatureServe Explorer 2.0 |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.130984/Hyptis_verticillata |website=explorer.natureserve.org |access-date=23 December 2022}}

| genus = Condea

| species = verticillata

| authority = (Jacq.) Harley & J.F.B.Pastor 2012{{cite journal |last1=Harley |first1=R. M. |last2=Pastore |first2=J. F. B. |title=A generic revision and new combinations in the Hyptidinae (Lamiaceae), based on molecular and morphological evidence |journal=Phytotaxa |date=27 June 2012 |volume=58 |issue=1 |page=1 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.58.1.1 |url=https://www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/content/2012/f/pt00058p055.pdf|doi-access=free }}

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|Hyptis verticillata|Jacquin 1787

|Mesosphaerum verticillatum|(Jacq.) Kuntze 1891

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Condea verticillata, commonly known as John Charles,{{cite book |last1=Arvigo |first1=Rosita |last2=Balick |first2=Michael |title=Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize |date=1993 |publisher=Lotus Press |isbn=0-914955-13-6 |page=101 |edition=1st}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is found in Mexico, Florida, Central America, the Caribbean, and northwestern South America.{{cite web |title=Condea verticillata – Species Details |url=https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/plant.aspx?id=494 |website=Atlas of Florida Plants |access-date=23 September 2020}}{{cite web |title=Condea verticillata (Jacq.) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77120819-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Kew Science |access-date=29 September 2020 |language=en}} It has also been introduced to Hawaii.

John Charles is used in traditional medicine to treat a variety of conditions including coughs, colds, fever, tonsillitis, bronchitis, uterine fibroids, skin infections, and stomach ache.{{cite journal |last1=Kuhnt |first1=Michaela |last2=Pröbstle |first2=Andrea |last3=Rimpler |first3=Horst |last4=Bauer |first4=Rudolf |last5=Heinrich |first5=Michael |title=Biological and Pharmacological Activities and Further Constituents of Hyptis verticillata|journal=Planta Medica |date=June 1995 |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=227–232 |doi=10.1055/s-2006-958061|pmid=7617764 }} The leaf and stem of the plant contain the lignan podophyllotoxin.