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Common name: Narrow leaf mountain mint
Scientific name: Pycnanthemum tenuifolium
Narrow leaf mountain mint is a beautiful addition to the native landscape to plant as a lower growing plant with lime green leaves. This plant's soft, bright green growth is a nice contrast from the other growth of taller, darker leaved plants.
Native Region: Eastern Canada and Central and Eastern United States
Benefits: rubbing the leaves used for mosquito repellent and supports the larvae of the wany-lined emerald and other beneficial insects. Dried flowers and leaves can be used for teas and flavorings.
Life Cycle: perennial
Growth Type: herbaceous growth that dies back in the winter. Plants are low growing clumping form with erect stems and fine textured leaves
Bloom Period: early summer and fall
History: has been used in herbal teas and by many native tribes as a seasoning in food to improve flavor, so widespread it has been use as a food additive
Propagation: division, leaf cutting, root cutting, seed, stem cutting
Size: 2-4 feet tall and 2-3 feet wide, spreading
Ecosystem: dry meadows, fields, thickets, open woods, upland prairies, and along roadsides, rocky woods, along streams, and in open wet thickets
Narrow-leaf Mountain Mint growing in native demonstration bed at Dean Lee Research and Extension Center.
Narrow-leaf Mountain Mint thriving in a native demonstration bed at Dean Lee Research and Extension Center.
