Mountain Mint

If you are serious about using integrated pest management to protect your food crops, you'll want to create a pollinator garden to bring beneficial insects into your yard.

Your local honeybees also love the purple-spots on the white flowers of native Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum). Feel good about using this important native perennial in your garden or backyard homestead.

This finely-textured native plant is a member of the mint family, so you might want to consider devoting a large container, such as a whiskey barrel, to this plant where it can create a helpful colony for you.

Otherwise, you should consider this a wide-spreading groundcover plant under larger shrubs or trees, or plan to use in a meadow setting.

It's cute as a button, and very aromatic with minty fresh leaves. It's sure to get a lot of traffic from local pollinators, such as honey bees, bumble bees, mason bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.

In some areas, this native plant actually does a little "too well", but don't worry. LetsPlantify.com uses Plant Sentry™ to follow all local, state and federal regulations for plants that can become invasive in your area.

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