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means Nepeta is the plant genus that includes catnip and catmint, a group of aromatic mint-family herbs prized for their fuzzy leaves, lavender-ish flowers, and chemical knack for making cats lose their composure.

from The name traces back to Latin 'nepeta,' the Roman word for catnip itself, which some ancient sources link to Nepete (Nepi), a town in Italy once thought to be a place where the plant grew abundantly — though that connection is more folk tradition than settled fact. The cat-intoxicating compound responsible for the genus's party trick, nepetalactone, was named after the plant centuries later, once chemists caught up to what cats already knew.