Pycnanthemum x incanum ‘Smokey Mountain Mint’
Pycnanthemum x incanum 'Smokey Mountain Mint' is a mountain mint with gray-purple-silver foliage and lavender flowers.
Pycnanthemum x incanum ‘Smokey Mountain Mint’ is an exciting and beautiful mountain mint offering wide appeal. Foliage offers spectacular shades of gray-purple with silvery growing points and bract-like leaves surrounding flower clusters of delicate white with lavender speckles at the tips of the long square stems. Grows from 24 to 30 inches tall and produces masses of flowers from early summer through frost. All parts of the plant emit a pleasant minty fragrance that can be used for teas and said to repel mosquitoes if rubbed on the skin. Does not spread. Pollinator magnet in the mid to late summer garden. Deer resistant.
Common Name: Mountain Mint
Family: Lamiaceae (The Mint Family)
Zone Hardiness: 3-7
Light: Part Shade, Part Sun, Full Sun
Height: 2-4'
Width: 2-3'
Primary Bloom Colour: White/Cream
Secondary Bloom Colour: Lavender
Foliage Colour: Green, Silver, Burgundy/Red/Purple
Class: Deciduous
Type: Perennial
Bloom Time: Summer, Fall
Soil Moisture: Average, Dry
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Fragrance: Yes
Berries:
Benefits: Butterflies Bees
Deer Resistant: Yes
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Native to Eastern North America where it typically grows in dry open woods, thickets and fields. In Ontario, hoary mountain mint mostly occurs in dry, oak woodland habitat, on steep, warmer-than-normal slopes.
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