Bee Balm

Description:

This plant, with showy summer-blooming white flowers, is often used as a honey plant, medicinal plant, and garden ornamental. The leaves smell minty, and are sometimes used to make a mint tea, while the aromatic oil from the leaves has been used to treat respiratory ailments. This is also great plant for attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden!

Habitat:

Native Distribution: Most of southern Canada and the United States east of the Rockies, except Maritime Provinces, and peninsular Florida. Native Habitat: Grows in dry open woods, fields, wet meadows and ditches, and at the edges of woods and marshes in the eastern fourth of Texas. Well-drained but moist sand, loam, clay; acidic or calcareous soils.

Notes:

Spotted growing on a wooded drive near an old church and cemetery and a utility plant.