Hi! My older daughter and I were at a camp near Temple this weekend and I saw this plant. I love the ways the flowers stack on top of each other! What is it?
Mystery woodlands plant
Here's a shot of the whole plant.
One more...
Unless it is invasive I would like to have one of those.
I looks like some type of monarda. Check out this picture. It has a similar stacked look.
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=8385
It looks like this one, Monarda punctata, http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=26563
Yep, that is definitely it. Thanks, AJ and Stephanie!!
Sandy, isn't it cool? I really liked it, too. I'm thinkin' anything in the Monarda family is likely to be pretty invasive, though. :-)
Actually on this website it says it is endangered and historical. I would love to have one if you ever get a chance to get one.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MOPU
I have the Horsemint variety of that growing at my land and house. I literally have thousands of the purple and the white varieties at the land. They smell great. I havent seen yours before.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/84155/
jujubetexas that is beautiful.
Put me down as "love to have one", too. I think they're invasive in the sense that they make an awful lot of seeds, but that's not a bad thing overall, as they are indigenous. (Just bad if you're trying to do some sort of landscaping which doesn't involve them.)
Yes. I had one at my house last year and I have 40 or more this year. They are about three to four feet tall so It is hard to miss them. I have been popping the flower heads off before they go to seed. The flowers themselves are about six inches long.
Jujube, you should collect the seeds, after you scatter some around if you want, and either sell them, trade them, or give them away.
They are beautiful. I don't have any, we just saw them at the camp we were at this weekend.
These are the flowers in the backyard. I think the one originally posted is a little more elegant.
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Both kinds are beautiful...and bee magnets, also! I have the Monarda citriodora blooming now. I had a package of seeds for M. punctata once, but it seems they turned out to be something else!
Yes, bees do thrive with Monarda, and they need all the help we can give them. Monarda alsois said to have medicinal qualities -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarda
I love Monarda!
Great photos. I've seen one before but can't remember where. They are works of art.
I am blessed to have it growing wild and blooming just now on my place near the Red River. I know it's a monardo but locals here just call it horsemint.
a bit better picture
