General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Dry Mesic
Plant Height: 1 to 2'
Plant Spread: 1 to 2'
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Fragrant
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
White
Bi-Color: Pink to white and purple
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Other: Deadhead flowers to prolong bloom period.
Uses: Culinary Herb
Medicinal Herb
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Propagation: Seeds: Other info: Will self-seed.
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Cuttings: Root
Division

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Common names
  • Bradbury's Bee Balm
  • Eastern Bee Balm
  • Beebalm
  • Eastern Beebalm
  • Horsemint
  • White Bergamot
  • Wild Bergamot
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Monarda bradburiana
  • Synonym: Monarda bradburyana
  • Synonym: Monarda rigida
  • Synonym: Monarda villosa

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Date: 2020-05-15
Location: Fairfax, VA | July, 2022
Date: 2022-07-03
there was a taag~
Location: Brighton Plants Nursery, East Sussex, England
Date: 05/18/2011
photo by Steve Law (peganum) via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/p
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-06-05
Location: My yard.
Date: 2012-04-09
First bloom.
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2013-05-23
Location: Lucketts, Loudoun County, Virginia
Date: 2013-05-22

Date: c. 1913
illustration from Britton and Brown's 'An illustrated Flora of th

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Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2020-07-23

Courtesy Gardens in the Wood of Grassy Creek
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Location: KALAMA WA
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Location: KALAMA WA
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Comments:
  • Posted by Catmint20906 (PNW WA half hour south of Olympia - Zone 8a) on Aug 24, 2014 10:24 AM concerning plant:
    Horsemint (Monarda bradburiana), native to the south central United States, is best grown in part sun. Unlike most Monardas, it seems to prefer medium to dry soil. Monarda bradburiana has special value to native bees and bumble bees and, like other Monarda, is attractive to hummingbirds. M. bradburiana also reportedly has some mildew resistance.

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