Pycnanthemum virginianum (Virginia Mountain Mint)
grows 2-3 ft. tall
full sun
medium moisture (mesic)
white flowers from July-Sept.
use leaves fresh or dried for tea
larval host plant
benefits Long-Horned Bees, Green Sweat Bees, Yellow-faced Bees, Small Resin Bees, bumble bees, paper wasps, thynid wasps, Great Golden Digger Wasp, Great Black Wasp, Cuckoo Wasp, bee wolves, potter wasps, grass-carrying wasps, soldier flies, syrphid flies, wedge-shaped beetles, Banded Hairstreak Butterfly, and ants
natural habitat: fens and marshes, seeps, wet meadows, clearings, open alluvial habitats; more common in fertile soils over limestone
good companion plants: Swamp Milkweed (Rose Milkweed), Great Blue Lobelia, White Turtlehead
grows 2-3 ft. tall
full sun
medium moisture (mesic)
white flowers from July-Sept.
use leaves fresh or dried for tea
larval host plant
benefits Long-Horned Bees, Green Sweat Bees, Yellow-faced Bees, Small Resin Bees, bumble bees, paper wasps, thynid wasps, Great Golden Digger Wasp, Great Black Wasp, Cuckoo Wasp, bee wolves, potter wasps, grass-carrying wasps, soldier flies, syrphid flies, wedge-shaped beetles, Banded Hairstreak Butterfly, and ants
natural habitat: fens and marshes, seeps, wet meadows, clearings, open alluvial habitats; more common in fertile soils over limestone
good companion plants: Swamp Milkweed (Rose Milkweed), Great Blue Lobelia, White Turtlehead
grows 2-3 ft. tall
full sun
medium moisture (mesic)
white flowers from July-Sept.
use leaves fresh or dried for tea
larval host plant
benefits Long-Horned Bees, Green Sweat Bees, Yellow-faced Bees, Small Resin Bees, bumble bees, paper wasps, thynid wasps, Great Golden Digger Wasp, Great Black Wasp, Cuckoo Wasp, bee wolves, potter wasps, grass-carrying wasps, soldier flies, syrphid flies, wedge-shaped beetles, Banded Hairstreak Butterfly, and ants
natural habitat: fens and marshes, seeps, wet meadows, clearings, open alluvial habitats; more common in fertile soils over limestone
good companion plants: Swamp Milkweed (Rose Milkweed), Great Blue Lobelia, White Turtlehead
