Pale Wild Bergamot; Pale Wild Bee Balm

Monarda fistulosa var. mollis

Found in moist wooded slopes, edges of calcareous prairies. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), South Central edition What its natural habitat tells you

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

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Monarda fistulosa var. mollis photograph — rashcollector · CC0 · Original photograph

At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 7 Mississippi counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

Prairies and grasslands

Open, grass-dominated places kept open by fire, grazing or thin soil, from tallgrass prairie to Piedmont prairies.

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

9CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including MS

Genus host records with ranges including MS · Monarda

Lintneria eremitusHermit Sphinx
Orthodes majusculaRustic Quaker, Rustic Groundcat
Papaipema nebrisStalk Borer
Pyrausta orphisalisOrange Mint Moth, Orange Spotted Pyrausta
Pyrausta signatalisRaspberry Pyrausta
Sparganothis sulfureanaSparganothis Fruitworm Moth, Sulfur Leafroller, False Yellow-Head
Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
Chionodes fondella
Xenotemna pallorana

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

37BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Monarda

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

4Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Monarda

Dufourea monardae
Perdita gerhardi
Perdita variegata
Protandrena abdominalis

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

—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: LAMIACEAE

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

Conservation status

Mississippi rank	SNR
Global rank	G5T5?
MS status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

Conservation source Global and federal source

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