Virginia Mountain Mint

(Pycnanthemum virginiana)

 

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Virginia Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginiana)

Identification: Flowers white spotted with pink or violet. Petals fused into a tube for their lower half, but free and hardly modified in their upper halves. Top two petals fused into a single lobe, other petal lobes splayed with a ragged appearance. Stamens protruding. Calyx regular, teeth of equal sizes. Flowers arranged in tightly packed clusters, flowers appearing sporadically in the head. Stem square, hairless. Leaves elongate, triangular, tapering toward the apex, and broadest at the base and sessile to the stem. Outer margin untoothed. Plant 1 to 3 feet in height.

Distribution: Throughout eastern North America.

Habitat: Virginia Mountain Mint is found in fields and thickets.

Flowering period: July to September.

Virginia Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginiana)

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The elongate, triangular, sessile leaves are distinctive and should separate this species from other species in the genus.

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