Bloom Native gardener's
field companion

Explore

Field report Layers Search
Log in Sign up
  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
  6. Mint Family
  7. Nepetoideae
  8. Ocimeae
  9. Top native

Top native Ocimeae

5 species, native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

Filter

5 native plants

Sun and shade

Light

Full sun 1 Part shade 1

Soil and water

Moisture

Moist 1 Wet 1

Water use

Medium 1 High 1

Soil pH

Acid 1 Neutral 1

Toughness

Deer resistant

Yes 1

Form

Plant type

Wildflower 4 Perennial 3 Annual 2 Shrub 1
  • Wild Sweet Basil Ocimum campechianum caterpillars 1 food 1 flowers 14
  • Desert Lavender Condea emoryi caterpillars 1 flowers 103
  • Little Spurflower Coleus australis caterpillars 1
  • Musky Mint Hyptis alata food 4 flowers 46
  • Black Sesame Cantinoa americana

We can't find the internet

Attempting to reconnect

Something went wrong!

Attempting to reconnect