Scarlet Beebalm
Monarda didyma
Red flowers from July into September, worked by two-spotted bumble bees and brown-belted bumble bees. It grows wild in 6 of Kentucky’s 120 counties.
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 3 ft to 4 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Red, Jul to Sep
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 13 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 37 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Two-spotted bumble bee (Bombus bimaculatus), Brown-belted bumble bee (Bombus griseocollis), Common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens), Black-and-gold bumble bee (Bombus auricomus)
Grows well with
Aromatic Aster
Showy Goldenrod
Common Wild Quinine
Eastern Smooth Beardtongue
Orange Coneflower
Steeplebush
Little Bluestem
Dense Blazing-starFacts from the Quercus record for Monarda didyma.