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Sierra mint

Pycnanthemum californicum

Sierra mint
Photo: Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0
Family
Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
C. & S. California
Climate
temperate

About

Pycnanthemum californicum is a species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common name Sierra mint, mountain mint, and California mint.

Where it grows

The plant is endemic to California, where it is native to the Sierra Nevada, Peninsular Ranges, Eastern Transverse Ranges, and Inner Northern California Coast Ranges.

Other Pycnanthemum plants

Stone mountainmint · Appalachian mountainmint · Florida mountainmint · Hoary mountainmint · Onehair mountainmint · Thinleaf mountainmint · Clustered mountainmint · Coastal plain mountainmint · Hairy Mountain Mint · Narrowleaf mountainmint · Torrey's Mountain Mint · Virginia mountainmint

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pycnanthemum californicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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