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    • Getting Started
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    • Step 3: Adding Habitat Corridors
  • The Nursery
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Short-toothed Mountain Mint
Pycnanthemum muticum

Height: 3 ft
Spread: 2 ft
Bloom Time: June-August
Sunlight: Full Sun to Part Shade
Soil Moisture: Wet, Moist
​Life Cycle: Perennial

Short-toothed Mountain Mint has a strong minty fragrance, woody stems, and upper leaves that develop a silvery sheen. The round heads of this species have small white to pink flowers, and it has a long bloom period during the summer months. Plants sourced from other places spread much more aggressively by runners than the local genotype version that occurs in our area of Virginia. Deer Resistant.


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