Hoary Mountain-mint
Pycnanthemum incanum
It grows wild in 9 of Mississippi’s 82 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 4.5 ft to 6 ft tall, 3 ft wide
- Flowers
- Purple and white
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 4 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 62 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens), Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis), Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica), Lemon cuckoo bumble bee (Bombus citrinus)
Grows well with
New England Aster
Swamp Azalea
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Fragrant Sumac
Calico Aster
Swamp RosemallowFacts from the Quercus record for Pycnanthemum incanum.