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Savanna Mountain-mint

Pycnanthemum flexuosum

Found in moist to wet pine savannas, pine flatwoods, pocosin margins, mountain bogs, seepage areas on low elevation granite domes. FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?

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Height
2–3 feet
Spread
1–3 feet
Light
Full sun, Partial shade
Soil moisture
Somewhat dry to moist

Space about 2 ft apart from its recorded spread, about 25 per 100 sq ft. Enter your bed size for a count

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At a glance

Life cycle
Perennial
Bloom
June to September
Fruiting season
September to October

Not yet recorded · Leaves

Recorded in 18 Florida counties.

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

3CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Pycnanthemum

  • Chloridea virescensTobacco Budworm Moth
  • Eutrapela clematariaCurved-Tooth Geometer, Purplish Brown Looper
  • Anstenoptilia marmarodactyla
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
62BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Pycnanthemum

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 4.0
0Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim
Beetles 5
  • Centrinus scutellum album
  • Mordella 8-punctata
  • Trichius affinis
  • Trichius piger
  • Typocerus sinuatus

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Flies 30
  • Alophora fumosa
  • Anthrax fulvohirta
  • Archytas analis
  • Archytas aterrima
  • Cistogaster occidua
  • Conops xanthopareus
  • Epigrimyia polita
  • Eristalis latifrons
  • Eristalis tenax
  • Exoprosopa emarginata
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  • Exoprosopa fasciata
  • Exoprosopa fascipennis
  • Helophilus latifrons
  • Limnophora narona
  • Mallota illinoensis
  • Milesia ornata
  • Odontomyia cincta
  • Orthoneura nitida
  • Paradidyma singularis
  • Phorantha humeralis
  • Physocephala texana
  • Physocephala tibialis
  • Scepsis fulvicollis
  • Spallanzania hesperidarum
  • Sphaerophoria cylindrica
  • Spilomyia longicornis
  • Stratiomyia meigenii
  • Xanthomelana arcuata
  • Zodion fulvifrons
  • Zodion obliquefasciatum

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Adult butterflies / moths 15
  • Argynnis cybele
  • Euptoieta claudia
  • Eurema lisa
  • Limochores taumas
  • Pholisora catullus
  • Phyciodes tharos
  • Pontia protodice
  • Strymon titus
  • Thanaos juvenalis
  • Thanaos martialis
Show all 15
  • Thorybes bathyllus
  • Vanessa atalanta
  • Vanessa cardui
  • Vanessa huntera
  • Zerene caesonia

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Other wasps 53
  • Ammobia ichneumonea
  • Ammobia nuda
  • Ammobia pennsylvanica
  • Ancistrocerus unifasciatus
  • Astatus unicolor
  • Bembix nubillipennis
  • Bembix spinolae
  • Bicyrtes 4-fasciata
  • Bicyrtes ventralis
  • Cerceris clypeata
Show all 53
  • Cerceris compar
  • Cerceris fumipennis
  • Cerceris robertsonii
  • Cerceris rufinoda
  • Ceropales robinsonii
  • Eucerceris zonatus
  • Eumenes fraternus
  • Isodontia apicalis
  • Leionotus arvensis
  • Leionotus clypeatus
  • Leionotus dorsalis
  • Leionotus fulvipes
  • Leionotus fundatus
  • Leionotus molestus
  • Leionotus scrophulariae
  • Leionotus vagus
  • Monobia 4-dens
  • Notoglossa emarginata
  • Notogonidea argentata
  • Palmodes dimidiata
  • Philanthus punctatus
  • Philanthus ventilabris
  • Poecilopompilus navus
  • Polistes annularis
  • Polistes rubiginosus
  • Polistes variatus
  • Pompiloides americanus
  • Pompiloides marginatus
  • Priononyx atrata
  • Priononyx thomae
  • Pseudoplisus phaleratus
  • Pterochilus 5-fasciatus
  • Scolia nobilitata
  • Sphex gracilis
  • Sphex nigricans
  • Sphex procera
  • Stictiella pictifrons
  • Stizus unicinctus
  • Tachysphex acutus
  • Tachysphex belfragei
  • Tachytes harpax
  • Tachytes pepticus
  • Zethus spinipes

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

Other insects 2
  • Calocoris rapidus
  • Lygaeus turcicus

Flower visits · Carlinville, Illinois, USA

No records yet · Ants

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Lamiaceae
Hardiness
Zones 5a–8b
Soil pH
Acidic to alkaline
Flower color
Purple or white
Fruit begins
September
Fruit ends
October

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Growing sources and scope
Also known as

Savanna Mountain mint

Conservation status

Florida rankSNR
Global rankG5
FL statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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