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Listed as one of the top 10 plants in the United States for attracting and feeding butterflies and beneficial pollinators, Pycnanthemum muticum, commonly known as Short-Toothed Mountain Mint, is a wonderful, aromatic North American native perennial wildflower. During the hot, humid summer, the soothing, minty fragrance of the foliage and the fragrant frosty flowers and bracts impart the illusion of coolness. During the summer, the tall, strong square stems clothed in mint green lanceolate leaves are topped with dense rounded clusters of white to soft lavender tubular flowers with purple spots. Butterflies and many other beneficial pollinators flock to the blooms and the flowers are excellent for cutting and use in flower arrangements. The leaves closest to the flower clusters are silver-grey to white, adding to the overall cool appeal of the plant. When crushed, the leaves have a strong minty fragrance and can be used in cooking and making teas. This one thrives in sunny to partially shaded and dry to moist sites, even in rocky, gravelly, and sandy soil. At 2 to 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, the Short-Toothed Mountain Mint is a fine accent in smaller garden beds or containers and in groupings where space allows. You might be happy to know that deer and rabbits turn their nose up to this one.

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