Top native balms, mints, and thymes
116 species, 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
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Clustered Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum muticum
caterpillars
1
food
11
flowers
369
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Whorled Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum verticillatum
caterpillars
1
food
11
flowers
199
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American Pennyroyal
Hedeoma pulegioides
caterpillars
1
food
2
flowers
24
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Rough False Pennyroyal
Hedeoma hispida
caterpillars
1
food
2
flowers
1
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Hoary Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum incanum
caterpillars
1
food
1
flowers
154
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Whiteleaf Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum albescens
caterpillars
1
food
1
flowers
136
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Southern Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides
caterpillars
1
flowers
139
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Loomis' Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum loomisii
caterpillars
1
flowers
136
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Torrey's Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum torreyi
caterpillars
1
flowers
134
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Stone Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum curvipes
caterpillars
1
flowers
133
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Awned Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum setosum
caterpillars
1
flowers
132
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Basil Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum clinopodioides
caterpillars
1
flowers
129
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Appalachian Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum montanum
caterpillars
1
flowers
128
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Beadle's Mountainmint
Pycnanthemum beadlei
caterpillars
1
flowers
127
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Stanfield's Beebalm
Monarda stanfieldii
caterpillars
1
flowers
38
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Texas Sandsheet Beebalm
Monarda fruticulosa
caterpillars
1
flowers
24
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Scrub Mint
Dicerandra frutescens
caterpillars
1
flowers
7
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Brewer's Monardella
Monardella breweri
bees
1
food
2
flowers
43
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Flaxleaf Monardella
Monardella linoides
bees
1
food
2
flowers
42
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Red Monardella
Monardella macrantha
bees
1
food
2
flowers
41
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Thickleaf Monardella
Monardella hypoleuca
bees
1
food
2
flowers
39
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Yellow Monardella
Monardella nana
bees
1
food
2
flowers
38
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Willowy Monardella
Monardella viminea
bees
1
food
2
flowers
31
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Jennifer's Monardella
Monardella stoneana
bees
1
food
2
flowers
31
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Southern Monardella
Monardella australis
food
2
flowers
42
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Serpentine Monardella
Monardella purpurea
food
2
flowers
41
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Monardella ovata
food
2
flowers
41
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Shelton's Monardella
Monardella sheltonii
food
2
flowers
41
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Curly Leaved Monardella
Monardella sinuata
food
2
flowers
39
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Veiny Monardella
Monardella douglasii
food
2
flowers
39
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Green Monardella
Monardella viridis
food
2
flowers
38
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Mojave Monardella
Monardella exilis
food
2
flowers
37
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Robison's Monardella
Monardella robisonii
food
2
flowers
36
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Curlyleaf Monardella
Monardella undulata
food
2
flowers
33
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Browne's Savory
Clinopodium brownei
food
2
flowers
9