Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Monarda fistulosa +
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Wild Bergamot at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Monarda fistulosa +
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-23-003:
Monarda fistulosa
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Wild Bergamot
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_m_fistulosa
June
Outer bracts green or reddish, depending on variety, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_monarda_fistulosa_1
June
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_monarda_fistulosa_1b
June
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_monarda_fistulosa_1c
June
A tuft of hairs at tip of the upper lip sets this apart from other Monarda, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_monarda_fistulosa_1d
June
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Gill Newberry gn07_monarda_fistulosa
July
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JK Marlow jkm080726_129
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm080729_042
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Bergamot's chief pollinators are bumblebees and butterflies, per Book of Field and Roadside.
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JK Marlow jkm080729_048
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Each floret is bisexual, its color attracting long-tongued pollinators, per Book of Field and Roadside.
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Keith Bradley kab_m_fistulosa_1061
July Buncombe County NC
North Carolina Arboretum
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JK Marlow s080729_b
July Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
Leaves deltoid-lanceolate, base slightly tapered to truncate, ~ serrate, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmmfistulosa_1
July-August
Pollinator at work.
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmmfistulosa_3
July-August?
Florets develop progressively from center of cyme outward, per Book of Field and Roadside.
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Gill Newberry gn08_m_fistulosa_headlike
August
The final stage is a bald central cyme ringed by a fringe of florets, per Book of Field and Roadside.
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Gill Newberry gn08_m_fistulose_tope_of2
August
Orifice of the calyx densely hirsute with numerous erect, stiff, white hairs, per Weakley's Flora.
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Gill Newberry gn08_springjuly302007_162
August
Pollinator at work.
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JK Marlow jkm060805_075
August Haywood County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Monarda fistulosa +
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Monarda fistulosa +
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-23-003:
Monarda fistulosa
FAMILY
Lamiaceae
943
Forb
Perennial
Native
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common to rare, depending on variety
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
...Moist
...Variable
...Dry
LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Pink/Lavender/Purple
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-toothed calyx
2-lipped tubular corolla
2 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers p204
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South p152
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p150
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p114
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p092
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p152
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p324
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p219
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p223
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p265
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p139