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Aromatic false pennyroyal

Hedeoma hyssopifolia

Also called Mock Pennyroyal

Aromatic false pennyroyal is a small, fragrant mint-family subshrub from the dry grasslands and desert edges of the US Southwest and northern Mexico. It is grown mainly as a drought-tolerant native or herb-garden plant, and it needs sharp drainage and full sun.

Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Lean, gritty, fast-draining soil; avoid heavy clay.
Temperature
15–35 °C; tolerates heat well, hardy to about -10 °C when dry.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Arizona, SW. New Mexico, N. Mexico
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Hedeoma hyssopifolia is a flowering plant species within the family Lamiaceae. Common names for Hedeoma hyssopifolia are mock pennyroyal and aromatic false pennyroyal.

Where it grows

Hedeoma hyssopifolia is native to southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico in the southwestern United States and to the states of Sonora and Chihuahua in northern Mexico.

Other Hedeoma plants

Slender false pennyroyal · Spreading false pennyroyal · Drummond's false pennyroyal · Dwarf false pennyroyal · Hedeoma patens · American false pennyroyal · Reverchon's false pennyroyal · Todsen's false pennyroyal · False pennyroyal

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hedeoma hyssopifolia 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.

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