subtribe
Balms, Mints, and Thymes
Menthinae
Children
- Monardellas 19 native
- Mountain Mints 16 native
- Beebalms and Bergamots 14 native
- Calamints 12 native
- False Pennyroyal 7 native
- Mesamints 5 native
- False Rosemary 5 native
- Scrub Balms 4 native
- Wood Mints 3 native
- Thornmints 2 native
- Cunila 1 native
- False Pennyroyal 1 native
- Poliomintha 1 native
- Rhododon 1 native
- Mints 1 native
- Wild Pennyroyal 1 native
- Whitweeds
- Thymbra
- Marjorams
- Ziziphora
- Savories
- Minthostachys
- Hesperozygis
- Thymes
Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided
Top native balms, mints, and thymes All
Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.
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Canada Mint
Mentha canadensis
caterpillars
13
hosts
2
food
5
flowers
115
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Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
caterpillars
10
bees
3
hosts
2
food
9
flowers
320
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Spotted Horsemint
Monarda punctata
caterpillars
4
bees
3
food
2
flowers
211
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Scarlet Beebalm
Monarda didyma
caterpillars
4
bees
3
flowers
120
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Purple Bergamot
Monarda media
caterpillars
4
bees
3
flowers
71
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White Bergamot
Monarda clinopodia
caterpillars
4
bees
2
flowers
70
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Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
caterpillars
4
bees
1
food
8
flowers
77
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Lemon Beebalm
Monarda citriodora
caterpillars
3
bees
1
food
4
flowers
96
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Redpurple Beebalm
Monarda russeliana
caterpillars
3
bees
1
flowers
54
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Virginia Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum virginianum
caterpillars
3
food
6
flowers
226
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Eastern Beebalm
Monarda bradburyana
caterpillars
3
flowers
67
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Narrowleaf Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
caterpillars
2
food
10
flowers
244
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Wild Basil
Clinopodium vulgare
caterpillars
2
food
5
flowers
48
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Plains Beebalm
Monarda pectinata
caterpillars
2
food
2
flowers
65
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Green Beebalm
Monarda viridissima
caterpillars
1
bees
1
flowers
39