OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Monarda media   FAMILY Lamiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Monarda media   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Monarda ×media

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-23-001?:

Monarda didyma   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A review of the genus Monarda (Labiatae) (McClintock & Epling, 1942)

Monarda media

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Monarda media

 

COMMON NAME:
Purple Beebalm, Purple Bergamot


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image of Monarda media, Purple Beebalm, Purple Bergamot

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_mome_001_lvd

        

image of Monarda media, Purple Beebalm, Purple Bergamot

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmmmedia_brp2

August?        NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Deep reddish purple flowers and dark purple floral bracts, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Monarda media, Purple Beebalm, Purple Bergamot

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmmmedia_brp3

August?        NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Monarda media   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Monarda media   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Monarda ×media

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 164-23-001?:
Monarda didyma   FAMILY Lamiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH A review of the genus Monarda (Labiatae) (McClintock & Epling, 1942)
Monarda media

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Monarda media

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2707

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Grassy balds, moist slopes, mostly at high elevations, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Rare

map
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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Leaves have petioles.

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Reddish-purplish
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-toothed calyx
2-lipped tubular corolla
2 exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of mericarps

 

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