Hairy Woodmint
Blephilia hirsuta
In the Carolinas and Georgia, found in rich, rocky or alluvial forests, montane forests up to at least 5000 feet elevation. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition What its natural habitat tells you
Native to Arkansas. How scores work Is it native here?
Profile 94%
- Height
- 1–2.5 feet
- Spread
- 9 inches–1.5 feet
- Light
- Part to full shade
- Soil moisture
- Average to moist
Space about 1 ft apart from its recorded spread, about 100 per 100 sq ft. Enter your bed size for a count
Will it fit your yard?
Rare or protected plant. Specialist conservation planting; excluded from routine garden suggestions. Plant caution source
Hidden from default planting suggestions. Wildlife value and native status remain unchanged.
At a glance
- Life cycle
- Perennial
- Bloom
- May to October
- Fruiting season
- August to November
Not yet recorded · Leaves
Recorded in 9 Arkansas counties.
Natural habitats
Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Floodplain and bottomland forests
Forests on low ground beside rivers and streams that flood from time to time.
Forest or woodland where the source does not say how moist or dry.
Who uses this plant?
11BeesSoutheastern regional records
Southeastern regional records · Blephilia
Individual names are not available yet.
Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0Flies 10
- Anthrax sinuosa
- Archytas analis
- Physocephala texana
- Physocephala tibialis
- Scepsis fulvicollis
- Stomoxys calcitrans
- Stylogaster neglecta
- Tropidia albistylum
- Xylota fraudulosa
- Zodion obliquefasciatum
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Adult butterflies / moths 5
- Anosia plexippus
- Argynnis cybele
- Pontia protodice
- Vanessa atalanta
- Vanessa cardui
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
Other wasps 5
- Ceropales fulvipes
- Polistes pallipes
- Sphex nigricans
- Sphex procera
- Sphex vulgaris
Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA
No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Other insects
Plant details
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Hardiness
- Zones 4–8
- Flower color
- White
- Fruit begins
- August
- Fruit ends
- November
Growing sources and scope
- Bloom · “May to October” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition (ranked first; Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differs) · Carolinas and Georgia
- Flower color · “White” · Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide · Nursery cultural guide; height in flower; moisture categories retained as printed
- Fruit begins · “August” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
- Fruit ends · “November” · Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition · Carolinas and Georgia
- Hardiness · “Zones 4–8” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
- Height · “1–2.5 feet” · Tennessee Smart Yards (ranked first; Minnesota Wildflowers, Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differ) · Published Tennessee growing guidance; exact cached scientific heading
- Life cycle · “Perennial” · Minnesota Wildflowers
- Light · “Part to full shade” · Tennessee Smart Yards (ranked first; Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder, Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differ) · Published Tennessee growing guidance; exact cached scientific heading
- primary_flower_color · “white” · Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide
- Soil · “moderately wet to medium” · Tennessee Smart Yards (ranked first; Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder, Prairie Moon 2026 Cultural Guide differ) · Published Tennessee growing guidance; exact cached scientific heading
- Spread · “9 inches–1.5 feet” · Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
Also known as
Hairy Pagoda Plant; Hairy Wood Mint
Conservation status
| Arkansas rank | S1 |
|---|---|
| Global rank | G5? |
| AR status | Not verified |
| Federal status | Not verified |
Will it fit your yard?
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Sources
- Atlas of the Vascular Plants of Arkansas (2013)
- USDA PLANTS
- Vascular Plants of North Carolina (NC Natural Heritage Program)
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Carolinas & Georgia edition
- NatureServe Explorer
- Arkansas occurrence source
- Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
- Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
- Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)
- Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire 2020, Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species, Nature Communications

