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Clinopodium ashei
Also called Ashe's Calamintha, Ashe's Savory
Ashe's calamint is a bushy, aromatic shrub in the mint family, growing to about half a meter, native to Florida and Georgia scrub and sand dunes. It is grown mainly as a native wildflower or pollinator plant and needs sharp drainage and full sun.
Clinopodium ashei (syn. Calamintha ashei) is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names Ashe's savory and Ashe's calamint. It is native to Florida and Georgia in the United States.
This bushy shrub grows up to about half a meter tall. It is aromatic. The stems have cracking, peeling bark and the newer twigs have a coat of downy hairs. The leaves are linear to narrowly oval in shape and are up to a centimeter long. They are hairy and glandular. The flower has a hairy, lipped corolla about a centimeter long not counting its tubular throat. It is whitish to pale lavender in color. Blooming occurs between January and April.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clinopodium ashei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
