Taxonomy

Cannabis strain families and lineage groups

A strain family in cannabis breeding is a cluster of cultivars that share a recognizable ancestor — a landrace progenitor, a clone-only mother, or a stabilized seedline that became the parent of dozens of downstream crosses. We build the lists below by walking every strain in the Lockbox library and checking three signals: the documented family tag on the strain record, the parent strains named in its lineage, and the strain's own name when it carries an anchor word like Kush, Haze, or Diesel. Because cannabis is a polyhybrid crop and almost every modern strain carries genetics from two or more families, a single cultivar will often appear under multiple groupings here — Wedding Cake, for example, lives in both the Cookies and Gelato families because it descends from both lines. The numbers on each card reflect how many Lockbox strains currently map to that family under those rules.