Comparison of The Antimicrobial Activity of Some Scutellaria orientalis L. Taxa Growing in Turkey

Abstract

Scutellaria species are commonly used in the treatment of variousdiseases in traditional medicine. One of the members of Lamiaceae, the genusScutellaria L. has approximately 471 species on earth. The genus is representedby 39 taxa in Turkey which 17 of them are endemics. In this study, plantsamples of 15 S. orientalis subspecies from different regions of our countrywere collected and methanol extracts were prepared from aerial parts. In vitroantimicrobial activity of these extracts against three gram positive and threegram negative bacteria and against a yeast using broth microdilution method.Methanol extracts of S. orientalis taxa were found to have moderate to lowantimicrobial activity compared to the literature.