#monarda fistulosa

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Wild Bergamot Monarda fistulosa Lamiaceae

Photograph taken on July 18, 2023, at Silver Creek Conservation Area, Ontario, Canada.

[vandaliatraveler]

A hummingbird clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) finds sustenance from wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa). 

[zarigueyamuerta]

wild bergamot inflorescences are so crazy theyre almost like asters

bonus very lorge bumble

[lunasong365]

Wild bergamot, aka bee balm (Monarda fistulosa)

[porchprairie]

Spring sprouts! We're due for frost or near-frost later this week, and it might be the last one so I'm getting these babies ready for planting:

Spiderwort sprouts with sand coreopsis in the background. These are by far the most mature of my seedlings

Prairie clover & a variety of bee balms, which I planted only a few weeks ago--they did indeed germinate as easily as promised and are growing crazy fast

[thebotanicalarcade]

[firstlawcedarprairie]

Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

[weezeryuri]

[geosesarma]

Yep. Plants Time

Pontederia cordata - Pickerelweed Verbena hastata - Blue Vervain Monarda fistulosa - Wild Bergamot Asclepias incarnata - Swamp Milkweed Sagittaria latifolia - Broadleaf Arrowhead Coreopsis lanceolata (!) - Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Nonnative to New Jersey, but often included in native seed mixes used for restoration projects, though considering its native range on the east coast ends in Virginia/How well it does up here and further north maybe it did range up here prior to glaciation?) Cyperus squarrosus - Bearded Flatsedge Solidago juncea - Early Goldenrod Echinacea purpurea (!) - Purple Coneflower (Another nonnative-native, a classic plant of midwest prairies thats been spread nationwide through both garden escapees and inclusion in native seed mixes) -8/23, Bergen County, NJ

[nicoletteconejo]

2024.04.17

we sowed flower 🌼 seeds, a special mix of wildflower species that attract and feed the bees 🐝 i couldn’t wait to find out how the flowers would look like, so i drew them to help me imagine the future little bee garden.

wildflowers for bees:

china after single mix

lance-leaved coreopsis

purple coneflower

black-eyed susan

bergamot monarda fistulosa

plains coreopsis

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

So most of the plants that began showing signs of life in April last year are doing so now, but I am still waiting on:

Adiantum pedatum (maidenhair fern) Aruncus dioicus (bride's feathers) Asclepias viridiflora (green comet milkweed) Cardamine concenata (cutleaf toothwort) Cardamine maxima (large toothwort) Claytonia virginica (fairyspuds) Clinopodium vulgare (wild basil) Comptonia peregrina (sweetfern) Echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower) Epilobium cilliatum (fringed willhowherb) Galium boreale (northern bedstraw) Hypericum punctatum (spotted St. John's wort) Lathyrus ochroleucus (cream pea vine) Mertensia paniculata (tall bluebells) Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot) Pycnanthemum tenufolium (slender mountain mint) Ratibida pinnata (greyheaded coneflower) Solidago nemoralis (grey goldenrod) Symphyotrichum ericoides (white heath aster) Trillium cuneatum (little sweet Betsy) Viola blanda (sweet white violet) Viola canadensis (Canada violet)

And we'll see if any more of the new ones show themselves this month. I suppose I should also track whether it's early in the month, the middle of the month or late in the month.

[vandaliatraveler]

Tibbs Run Preserve, Panel 3 of 3. Pollinators and predators, masters and mimics, these are the true caretakers of a summer garden, small miracles barely perceived at the scale of the obvious.

[bigoldeels]

MIDWEST/EAST US: I have the following native flower (and one grass) seeds available for cost of shipping, all harvested from either my garden or from nearby parks in small amounts. if you're interested please kofi me here and shoot me a message with your address and what you'd like! amount/availability may vary but I would like to share as much as possible.

before requesting please make sure the seeds you want are native to your state! prairie moon has range maps for many of the species here; otherwise a quick search of the scientific name should let you know.

seeds I have:

-Cup plant (silphium perfoliatum)

-Common milkweed (asclepias syriaca)

-Swamp milkweed (asclepias incarnata)

-Honeyvine milkweed (cynanchum laeve)

-Maypop (passiflora incarnata)

-Bee balm (monarda fistulosa)

-Foxglove beardtongue (penstemon digitalis)

-Purple coneflower (echinacea purpurea)

-Missouri coneflower (rudbeckia missouriensis)

-Showy sunflower (helianthus pauciflorus)

-Cliff goldenrod (solidago drummondii)

-Meadow blazing star (liatris ligulistylis)

-Common evening primrose (oenothera biennis)

-Blue sage (salvia azurea)

-Little bluestem (schizachyrium scoparium)

-Blue mistflower (conoclinium coelestinum)

[porchprairie]

Spring sprouts! We're due for frost or near-frost later this week, and it might be the last one so I'm getting these babies ready for planting:

Spiderwort sprouts with sand coreopsis in the background. These are by far the most mature of my seedlings

Prairie clover & a variety of bee balms, which I planted only a few weeks ago--they did indeed germinate as easily as promised and are growing crazy fast

[thebotanicalarcade]

n2_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The Botanical magazine, or, Flower-garden displayed ... /. [S.l. :s.n.],1790-1800 ;. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/469244

[eventhorizon8]

I’ve been accumulating a small collection of plant bits that I've come across for a while and I wanna start posting about them :3

This first one is a flower from a plant called Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa). It's a prairie wildflower that's really stunning. it's bright purple, and the plants usually grow in big bunches that all bloom together.

This specimen was actually bycatch from an insect survey in the lab I work in. Basically they just swung a big net around and looked at all the insects that got caught. They coincidentally happened to break this flower off in the net, and then they stuck it in a freezer with the samples for three months until they were ready for processing. That’s why this one looks so beat up.

Here’s what the flowers look like in full bloom. You can also see where this flower gets its other name; Bee Balm.