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Pycnanthemum muticum
Also called Blunt Mountain Mint, Clustered Mountain Mint, Short Toothed Mountain Mint, Showy Mountain Mint
Clustered mountainmint is a native North American perennial mint grown for its silvery bracts and its appeal to pollinators. It thrives in moist, well-drained soil in sun or part shade.
Pycnanthemum muticum, commonly known as clustered mountain mint, is a plant from the genus Pycnanthemum that is native to the eastern United States. It grows in well-watered dappled woodlands and meadows in the wild. It is also planted in gardens because it is highly attractive to butterflies and other pollinators.
Clustered mountain mint is sometimes grown in gardens, particularly ones emphasizing native plants or to benefit pollinators. Many different kinds of insects are attracted to the strong nectar flow including bees, wasps, moths, and butterflies.
They are more valued for the silver colored bracts which last much longer than the blooms. The seedheads dry out and persist over the winter, providing light cover and nesting material to birds.
This species is found in scattered locations from Florida to Maine on the east coast of the United States and as far west as Texas and Michigan. It is most common in the eastern US in the Appalachian Mountains, in the eastern half of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire. To the west, it is also quite common in Arkansas and Louisiana.
Sierra mint · Stone mountainmint · Appalachian mountainmint · Florida mountainmint · Hoary mountainmint · Onehair mountainmint · Thinleaf mountainmint · Coastal plain mountainmint · Hairy Mountain Mint · Narrowleaf mountainmint · Torrey's Mountain Mint · Virginia mountainmint
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pycnanthemum muticum 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.
