Blunt Mountain Mint

Name: Blunt Mountain Mint
Brand: American Meadows
SKU: AM020078
Price: 9.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

SKU: AM020078

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Overview

Blunt Mountain Mint is a distinctive native wildflower that simply buzzes with life. Bees, butterflies, and other pollinators cover the small, white, nectar-rich flowers from mid to late summer. Blooms form in button-like clusters, surrounded by silver bracts that give plants a frosted appearance. Foliage smells strongly of spearmint, with the added benefit of being unpalatable to deer and rabbits. This resilient perennial can tolerate heat and humidity and naturalizes easily. (Pycnanthemum muticum)

key features

Botanical Name

Pycnanthemum muticum

Growing Zones

Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8

Advantages

Native, Bee Friendly, Attracts Butterflies, Naturalizes, Fragrant

Light Requirements

Full Sun, Half Sun / Half Shade

Mature Height

12-36" tall

Bloom Time

Mid to late summer

SKU

AM020078

Description

Blunt Mountain Mint is easy to naturalize in pollinator gardens, meadows, and cottage gardens. Plants form a dense clump through slowly spreading rhizomes. Native to bogs, low meadows, and damp woods throughout most of the eastern United States, Blunt Mountain Mint thrives in fertile, moist soils and full sun. Plants tolerate some shade as well as clay soils. Blunt Mountain Mint is highly attractive to pollinators, recognized by the Xerces Society for being a valuable nectar source for native bees, honeybees, and bumblebees. It also attracts skippers and flower flies, and supports a healthy population of beneficial insects to prevent harmful pests. Blunt Mountain Mint looks lovely massed in perennial borders alongside tall Coreopsis, Blazing Star, and ornamental grasses.