Slender Mountain-mint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
Pink and white flowers from June into August, worked by common eastern bumble bees and brown-belted bumble bees. It grows wild in 94 of Virginia’s 133 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Dry to moist soil
- Size
- 3 ft to 4 ft tall, 2.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Pink and white, Jun to Aug
- Roots
- A clump of fibrous roots
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seed
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
Calico Aster
Bluestem Goldenrod
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
New Jersey Tea
New England Aster
Dwarf Azalea
Small's RagwortFacts from the Quercus record for Pycnanthemum tenuifolium.