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Clinopodium glabellum
Also called Ozark Wild Basil
Clinopodium glabellum is a small, short-lived perennial mint native to a few wet limestone glades and creek seeps in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama, so it is rarely grown and is considered vulnerable in the wild. Its common name "Ozark calamint" is misleading, since Ozark populations are usually a different species, C. arkansanum.
Clinopodium glabellum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family. It is commonly known as glade calamint, glade savory, and glade wild basil. It is native to the Nashville Basin of Tennessee, the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky, and two counties in Alabama. Within this range, it is found only on wet cedar glades and in seeps along limestone creekbeds. Due to its narrow range and specific habitat requirements, this species is considered vulnerable.
It is a small perennial, often flowering in the first year. It produces pale pink flowers in late spring.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Clinopodium glabellum 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.
